Selena Gomez Showcases L.A. Restaurants in Selena + Restaurant

Selena Gomez is leaving her house kitchen behind and heading out into a few of Los Angeles’ hottest kitchens in a brand new Meals Community present.

Selena + Restaurant, premiering Might 2 on Meals Community, will take viewers into the kitchens of six buzzy L.A. eating places.

The cooking abilities Gomez gained throughout her Max present Selena + Chef — the place grasp cooks assist the pop star and actress study to prepare dinner — will likely be put to the check by a few of L.A.’s greatest cooks together with Shirley Chung, Keith Corbin, Stephanie Izard, Andrew and Michelle Muñoz, Wolfgang Puck and Marcel Vigneron.

Over the course of six episodes, the Solely Murders within the Constructing star will likely be examined by the cooks within the hopes of making a brand new dish for every restaurant’s menu. Gomez’s greatest buddy Raquelle Stevens, a contestant on Selena + Chef, will accompany her all through the present.

“After cooking largely just about from my kitchen with a few of the greatest cooks for the final 4 years, I used to be thrilled to step into their world,” Gomez mentioned in a launch. “You’ll need to see if being in individual helped my abilities in any respect.”

The present kicks off with double episodes. The primary episode options Puck at his Beverly Hills restaurant CUT Steakhouse and the second episode options Chung at her Culver Metropolis spot Ms Chi.

At CUT, Gomez and Stevens be a part of Puck as Gomez should go Puck’s check and grasp one among his traditional dishes. She may also create her tackle a spicy seafood dish with the hopes of it being added to the menu.

At Ms Chi, Gomez joins Chung within the kitchen to make a “fusion model of a beloved dish from Selena’s childhood,” in response to the discharge. Gomez and Stevens will go to 4 further eating places all through the season.

Check out the opposite spots the pair will cease at:

Lemon Grove

Gomez will be a part of Vigneron on the Hollywood hotspot Lemon Grove. The rooftop restaurant is positioned within the boutique resort and member’s membership, The Aster. The spot opened in 2022 and is impressed by Previous Hollywood.

Alta

Corbin and Gomez will spend time within the kitchen of the soul meals restaurant Alta. Corbin and co-chef Daniel Patterson opened the preliminary group of Alta eating places within the Bay space earlier than opening their L.A. spot within the West Adams neighborhood. Corbin’s tackle soul meals mixes conventional West African meals and California delicacies.

Woman & the Goat

Gomez may also go to Izard at her downtown restaurant, Woman & the Goat. The Chicago-originated restaurant opened its L.A. location in the summertime of 2021 and has been a crowd favourite ever since. The L.A. group, whereas nonetheless on model with the Chicago location, goals to continuously create new dishes impressed by native produce and flavors.

Lastly, Gomez will strive her hand at Texas barbecue at Moo’s Craft Barbecue with Andrew and Michelle Muñoz. The duo began their well-liked BBQ spot as a pop-up in an East L.A. yard in 2017. The restaurant — which, in response to Hollywood producer Jamie Patricoff, makes one of many city’s greatest burgers — can now be present in L.A.’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood.

Selena + Restaurant premieres on Meals Community Might 2 with an episode at 7 p.m. and seven:30 p.m. The present may also be out there to stream on Max.