Restaurants' Reality

Rocco DiSpirito; Photo - NBC The Daily News says there are operational issues with Rocco's reality restaurant. Like no one could see that one coming. Gothamist is still excited about the Southern Italian restaurant, Rocco, since it involves TV and food, two of our most favorite things. If Sam Waterston played the manager, we'd be living there. We just suggest that there's an inverse relationship between hotness of restaurant staff and actually getting a meal.

In other restaurant news, restaurateurs are getting on the "stop the ticketing blitz" bandwagon by fighting the Department of Health's new rules and regulations. One restaurant owner tells the Post, "It used to be, if you had two cracked eggs in a batch, you'd get one violation - if you even got written up for it. Now, each egg is considered a separate violation."

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By Jen Chung in Food, News on June 11, 2003 8:30 AM

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Rosser

My wife and I went there for drinks on 12 June and back for dinner on 13 June. The staff was friendly and efficient and the food was excellent. As long as you don't do anything to attaract attention, like order something really exotic or have a birthday, the cameras ignore you. If Rocco drops by your table, the cameras follow.

Having said all that, the shooting ended 14 June and will resume if the first six to eight episodes are successful (whatever that means). First episode is NBC, 10 PM, 20 July.

at203

Yeah, I'm definitely going to watch the show, but there seems to be little point in going -- you already know the service is going to suck and the spectacle of it all is going to upstage the food. I guess if you want to be on TV, then going there makes sense.