Behind the sleek branding and star power, do celebrity-chef restaurants actually stand apart from your local neighborhood grill?

'Chris was an extraordinary chef, but even more extraordinary as a man - warm, generous, steady, and endlessly kind,' celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli said of Chef Chris Wheeler ...

There's something very earnest and inspiring about the notion of the "celebrity chef." Largely anonymous to all but the elite and hardcore gourmets and gourmands for centuries as they toiled away in ...