Chef At San Diego’s ARLO Competes In Food Network Beach Cook-Off

SAN DIEGO, CA — ARLO restaurant’s head chef Joshua Mouzakes, of San Diego, is among the contenders in an upcoming East Coast vs. West Coastline, Food stuff Community series that problems prime-notch cooks to generate these types of summer season, seaside eats as lobster rolls, fish tacos, funnel cakes and elote road corn.

The six-7 days “Beachside Brawl” premieres at 10 p.m. June 19, hosted by Meals Community fixture and celebrity chef Antonia Lofaso, proprietor of numerous Los Angeles-spot eateries.

Just after his vocation begin at Thomas Keller’s famed The French Laundry in Yountville, Mouzakes obtained acclaim for supporting put the Mission Valley restaurant on the culinary map with ARLO’s eclectic menu, showcasing Moroccan-encouraged lamb meatballs, maple halibut, forest mushrooms/goat cheese flatbread and brunch dish, Cuban pork Benedict.

Mouzakes, who took time off from ARLO’s kitchen through “Beachside Brawl” filming, was one of 4 chefs selected to be on Los Angeles restaurateur Brooke Williamson’s West Coast crew.

The foursome assembled by Williamson, a “Prime Chef” winner, also includes Jessica Roy of Newport Beach front and two chefs from Washington condition. The West Coast gang will go head-to head in opposition to an East Coast group with New Jersey, Florida and Massachusetts cooks and headed by Boston-centered chef Tiffani Faison.

And the stakes are large in this beachside showdown. A single contestant will be crowned “Finest of the Beach” and get a beach front getaway well worth up to $25,000, the network reported.

For the to start with obstacle, the two groups will have to generate boardwalk-type dishes — that greatest stand for their coasts — such as a little something on a adhere, one thing in a bun and a thing fried. Other problems will include things like boardwalk bake income, “seafood banquets on a finances” and “million-greenback yacht foods,” Television set officers claimed.

Lofaso, a New York indigenous, now a Venice resident and operator of Better L.A.’s Scopa, Black Marketplace, The Neighborhood Peasant and DAMA, predicts viewers will take pleasure in rooting for their coastline and fave beach front bites.

“With my sturdy connection to both of those coasts — being born on the east and developing up on the west — I am so thrilled to oversee this opposition,” she explained.

Joining Lofaso will be rotating guest judges to decide which chef goes house each and every 7 days and to aid ascertain the winner.

Is it “West Coast/ideal coastline” for summer bites? Will Mouzakes arise as “Best of the Seashore”? Tune in to locate out.

To obtain far more data on Food items Network’s Beachside Brawl, stick to this hyperlink. The exhibit also will be streamed on discovery+.

ARLO is situated at San Diego’s City and Place Vacation resort, 500 Hotel Circle North.

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