" On our anniversary, my girlfriend wanted me to take her to the most expensive place to eat in town. So I took her to the airport."
- Steve Kelly
We have two, thank you very much. One is old and crappy, the other is newer and hardly crappy at all.
By the way, ralph124c, are you sure you’re not thinking of California Pizza Kitchen? The website for the San Jose Airport shows no Wolfgang Puck in either of our two glorious terminals.
It’s a sample of one, but the California pizza kitchen in a ritzy shanghai hotel complex blows monkey chow. It’s awful.
Denver airport has a fantastic Mexican restaurant. I forget the name, but it’s really good and I always think when eating there “this can’t be airport food.”
Are you sure that wasn’t the California Pizza Kitchen at the Mirage in Vegas? Because someone most distinctly blew monkey chow all over the red carpet near its entrance. OK, I can’t say it was monkeys… it could have been Eau d’Gastric, imported from France. But they never could get that smell out in the week I was there. :eek:
The two times I’ve had CPK sucked, too. Once was at an airport and the sauce was too (i.e. extremely) sweet and the crust too much like sugared, undercooked sourdough.
I thought it might have been the specific pizza I had (some sort of oriental iirc,) so I picked up a frozen one and cooked it (some sort of chicken?) It had the similar bad properties, with a different topping this time.
In the spirit of not saying anything bad, I’ll say this: the frozen CPK pizza I cooked myself did not taste worse than the one I got in the airport.
I’ve never had Wolfgang Puck’s pizza. My only acquaintanceship with him is when he’s hawking his cookware on the Home Shopping Channel. Which makes me suspect of his cookware AND his pizza (by association).
I really just came into this thread to tell Indistinguishable how much I love his/her user name. So many syllables . . . so fun to say out loud.
Sorry if that’s a hijack.
My sister had a job as a product demonstrator at Baker’s , a once-decent local chain ruined first by Fleming, then by Kroger.
One weekend she was demonstrating a Wolfgang Puck’s allegedly Gourmet coffee cafe au lait drink in a self-heating can and had a couple of cans left over, one of which she gave to me with the warning that it was artificially sweetened.
It was artificially coffee-ed as well. And the milk was obviously powdered. The only good thing about it was that the can worked perfectly.
If the product had been anything other than the South Park character Tweak’s Dad’s
“tastes like raw sewage” coffee, it might have been worth over $3 a can.
The concept of a GOOD self-heated coffee and a GOOD self-heated beef stew sounds like something to pack away in one’s emergency kit before venturing too far from home in bad winter weather.
My opinion of Wolfgang Puck is that given a choice between eating anything with his name on it and scrounging for an old mint at the bottom of my wife’s purse at the airport, the mint wins decisively. The man is a whore who’ll put his name on anything that was once food for endorsement money.
Aw, shucks… Yer too kind. bashful giggles
(I’m a him, incidentally.)
How was Proudest Monkey to know that? I generally find posts by a man to be, oh, crap, what’s the word…something…means not any different from, posts by a woman.
Never had Wolfgang Puck (pronounced: POOK), anything… but I suspect I’d rather have a meal prepared by Wolfgang personally rather than any of his representive products.
Fascinating though, you wonder how much control of quality some of these “marketable” chefs give up in their mass produced and franchised products.
…still, he is the one that approved that final pizza and Cafe au lait. Must cost a lot to live in L.A.
[In case you’re also serious, I wasn’t expecting anyone to know it, just clarifying the situation since the ambiguity had been raised.]