The celebrity chef’s first restaurant was a smash hit, which he considered a genius move. The next venture, however, quickly taught him how wrong things could go.
Curtis Stone makes breakfast for his kids every morning. It is always a cooked breakfast. “We don’t have cereal in the house,” he says. Eamon Gallagher
Curtis Stone, the celebrity chef, cookbook writer and ambassador for Coles, opened his first restaurant in Beverley Hills in Los Angeles in 2014. It was a runaway success.
Two years later, Stone and his brother Luke opened a sister eatery in Hollywood. The early signs were good – but then they weren’t.
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