The Restaurant Guys

Alton Brown Offers Food for Thought

• The Restaurant Guys • Episode 81

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The Banter

The Guys talk about a common practice that is dubbed “too hospitable.”

The Conversation

The Restaurant Guys catch up with Alton Brown while he is on a bus in the middle of his Alton Brown Live tour. They laugh about culinary mishaps, debate using the title chef and elaborate on Mark’s term “restauranting.”  

The Inside Track

The Guys and Alton found common ground on the desire and benefits to being a regular in an establishment.

“ I want to be a regular. I don't need the new shocking experience. What I love is being able to walk in on a night when I do not have a reservation. And the maître d’ sees me and not only gets me a table, and gets me my table. And the drink that I like best comes without me ordering it.

I will tip until I bleed to death!” Alton Brown on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2025

Bio

Alton Brown is an American television personality, food show presenter, chef, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 14 seasons, host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. 

Alton is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. 

He is the recipient of two James Beard Awards and a Peabody. He won the Best Book award in 2003 for his first book, I'm Just Here for the Food, and the Broadcast Media Award in 2011 for TV Food Personality/Host. 

Info

An Evening of Alton Brown at The State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ

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