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First a critics' darling, then a reality star, then out of the restaurant business for more than a decade, Rocco DiSpirito is back with nuanced cooking and an.
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Mama DiSpirito the real star at TV's 'Restaurant'
As a reality series, NBC's "The
Restaurant" makes me nuts. The show about New York chef Rocco DiSpirito opening
an Italian restaurant seems more unrealistic than anything else.
Last season, the successful, critically
acclaimed chef looked like a doofus as a restaurateur, manager and male, spending
more time eyeing the customers' cleavage than trying to fix his train wreck
of a restaurant.
This season, his financial partner
-- restaurant mogul Jeffrey Chodorow -- comes off as ham-handed, arrogant and
boorish as he and his team move in and try to take over after losing -- he says
-- more than a half-million dollars on Rocco's place.
But what keeps me watching this
contrived drama is Mama -- Rocco's 78-year-old Italian-born mother, Nicolina
DiSpirito, whom viewers see every week making big batches of the restaurant's
signature Mama's Meatballs, and later talking to adoring customers.
She seems
to be working harder than m