10 Best Celebrity Owned Restaurants
Whenever we talk about celebrities, be sure that they have expensive cars, luxurious mansions, hotels, and some of them, restaurants.
After having talked about the best celebrity owned hotels, it’s only normal to see which are the best celebrity owned restaurants.
And don’t imagine that you have to go just to New York to enjoy a celebrity meal because their restaurants are all over the world, from New York City and Los Angeles to New Jersey, Boston, Park City, Las Vegas and Dubai.
The restaurants offer a top dining experience and some of them are quite different, in a good way, of course.
So let’s see which are the top celebrity owned restaurants!
1.Mark Wahlberg – Wahlburgers, Boston
The first restaurant we are going to talk about is Mark Wahlberg‘s.
The American actor, producer and model Mark Wahlberg is a former rapper, if you didn’t now, and now a restaurant owner as well.
His Boston-based restaurant Wahlburgers is a laid-back venue that serves some amazingly delicious burgers. Among the unique recipes are included the Salmon Burger, Portobello Mushroom Cap Burger and Thanksgiving Burger.
Best known for playing in the movie Ted, Wahlberg plans on opening a second venue in Boston, and expand his brand to Toronto, as well.
The restaurant is well known for its custom cocktails, dubbed as Wahlcoctions (that is one interesting name) as well as for the popular children’s menu!
#2 won Utah’s Best of State award ->
2.Robert Redford – Zoom, Park City
Our next celebrity owned restaurant belongs to Robert Redford.
Famous American actor Robert Redford is also known as a business man, so owning a restaurant does not come as a surprise.
Opened in 1995, Zoom restaurant is a part of Robert Redford’s Sundance Resort Group in Utah, and located in Park City. The location pays tribute to Park City’s pioneering history, the restaurant being housed in a building that was a former Union Pacific railway depot.
The restaurant has a casual, yet elegant atmosphere, with a laid-back vibe, and serves North American fare dishes, such as ribs, buffalo osso bucco and Mexican dishes.
In 2010, 2011 and 2013 Zoom won Utah’s Best of State award.
Lucky #3, meeting his wife in his own restaurant ->
3.Chris Noth – Cutting Room, New York City
The next popular restaurant owned by a celebrity is Chirs Noth‘s Cutting Room.
Sex and the City’s Mr. Big is a big fan of music, so he and co-owner Steve Walter opened the Cutting Room in New York City in 1999.
The restaurant is a live music venue with an eclectic line-up of artists, and a five-star food and drinks. The multi level bar has a club vibe and features a red-curtained main stage, a curved wooden bar and a diverse range of menu items.
The restaurant surely looks amazing, and it seems like it has brought good luck to Noth, him meeting his wife, Tara Lynn Wilson, while she was working in his restaurant. That was destiny, for sure!
Take a look at this funky dinner! ->
4.Ashton Kutcher – Ketchup, Dubai
And our number 4 best celebrity owned restaurant belongs to Ashton Kutcher.
If you decide to travel to Dubai, you might not want to eat American food and try some new foods, but I say it’s worth paying a visit to Ketchup, Kutcher’s restaurants.
The soon-to-be dad and Wilmer Valderrama invested in the famous Dolce Group many years ago. And along with some of the Group’s establishments that include popular venues such as Dolce Enoteca e Ristorante, Geisha House and Bella Cucina Italiana, is the Ketchup restaurant.
The restaurant will offer you a funky dining experience, with classic American cuisine, while putting a gourmet twist on regular foods such as hot dogs and burgers.
So, what do you say?
Experience Jay Z’s luxurious life style with #5!
5.Jay Z – 40/40 Club, New York City
How can Jay Z not own a restaurant? Of course he does, I mean, come on, the man has it all.
Including a $40 million jet thanks to his lovely wife.
But today we are focusing on his 40/40 Club, in New York City, which has been opened for more than a decade.
The luxurious sports bar has over 1000 square meters, and serves both as a nightclub and a dining place. If you are wondering what the name stands for, 40/40 comes from a baseball feat of hitting 40 home runs and stealing 40 bases in a single season, thing that only four players in history have achieved.
The 40/40 Club feels and tastes like luxury, as Jay Z has us used to. The venue features gold baseball bats on the wall, box-style seating and private rooms with billiard tables. To top all that, chandeliers are hung from gold cables and gold Champagne bottles are seen around the bar, the club having a sporting memorabilia as well.
The 40/40 serves Buffalo wings, southern fried shrimp, turkey sliders and braised beef short ribs. So this high end club is a good place to experience Jay Z’s life for a bit!
#6 is a unique restaurant where you don’t have to pay!
6.Bon Jovi – Soul Kitchen, New Jersey
Our next celebrity owned restaurant belongs to Bon Jovi.
The rocker opened his restaurant Soul Kitchen in 2011, and is quite a different restaurant. The charitable Soul Kitchen is a venue where there are no prices, diners deciding to donate how much they want, or they can. They can also participate in volunteer work at the venue in exchange for their food.
The restaurant is a former auto body shop and is run by the JBJ Soul Foundation.
Even though the restaurant is non-profit, top quality food is served in the Soul Kitchen, so you don’t need to worry. Most of the ingredients for meals come straight from the herb and vegetable garden outside the restaurant, so it’s all healthy and qualitative.
So why not do a good deed for others while enjoying a delicious meal?
Whoever is a train lover must go to this restaurant! ->
7.Michael Jordan – The Steak House, New York City
Welcome to the Steak House, one of the best celebrity owned restaurants!
Owned by famous Michael Jordan, this restaurant is one of Cornerstone Restaurant Group’s most well-regarded establishments.
The Steak House is named after Jordan, and pays homage to luxurious train travel, having a design that’s reminiscent of a dining car.
Created in 1998, the restaurant is named after the athlete and features a delicious menu that includes a selection of steaks, seafood and classic dishes. The famous Historic Cocktails are named after certain trains or routes that once travelled.
If this didn’t sound convincing enough, the restaurant has been awarded two stars by The New York Times, reviewer Ruth Reichl, saying that The Steak House has:
invented a new kind of celebrity restaurant.
And for the Ryan Gosling fans.. ->
8.Ryan Gosling – Tagine, Los Angeles
And the adorable Ryan Gosling is here!
Girls, this is the place to go whenever you are in Los Angels, Ryan Gosling’s Tagine restaurant.
Located in Beverly Hills, the restaurant serves up modern Moroccan cuisine from a head chef that Gosling first met. The actor said the chef’s food is:
food he would eat everyday for the rest of his life.
So along with the chef, Gosling opened Tagine, a place where customers will feel cosy and satisfied with their delicious meals, courtesy of catered food.
The restaurant features plush banquettes, handmade mirrors, black and white photos by portraitist Dan Winters and flickering candles.
So ladies, you can’t date Ryan Gosling, but at least you can eat in his restaurant!
#9 is perfect for the ladies!
9.Eva Longoria – SHe by Morton’s, Las Vegas
For all the women out there who don’t know where to dine, it’s time to try Eva Longoria‘s restaurant.
Located within The Shops at Crystals at Aria Las Vegas, SHe is a partnership between Morton’s and Longoria, which you will surely love.
Opened in 2013, SHe offers private dinning rooms, an indoor and outdoor lounge and runway fashion shows held during meals. The women’s dishes are catered with smaller portion sizes and with mirrors placed on dessert menus, you know, if you want to powder your nose or re-apply lipstick (that is extremely cute and convenient).
SHe is labelled as a:
female-friendly boutique steakhouse.
A female-friendly luxurious boutique, I would add. Because the restaurant has an opulent look, having rich textures such as alligator, cork, crystals, internally lit screens and embossed metallic wall coverings.
But it’s all so cosy and intimate, that you really need to try it out!
The most known of De Niro’s restaurants ->
10.Robert De Niro – Nobu, New York City
And we end our top celebrity owned restaurants with Robert De Niro‘s Nobu.
Opened in 1994, the venue is the most renowned of De Niro’s restaurants (because of course he owns more than one).
The actor co-founded the restaurant after being impressed with Chef Nobuyuki “Nobu” Matsuhisa’s talent.
Serving up delicious Japanese cuisine in the suburb of Tribeca, Nobu has been a big hit since it opened. It has been awarded three stars from The New York Times and on top of that, a Michelin star.
So this must be an extremely good restaurant!
So these were the 10 Best Celebrity Owned Restaurants!
Let us know which one would you try first! We hope you enjoyed our article and don’t forget to share it with your friends!
For more info about celebrities, make sure you also read The Best Celebrity Owned Hotels!
