One of the most striking things about Carmy’s cookbook collection is that it overwhelmingly skews white. With our Sunday roasts you can choose from our specialty roast sirloin of beef, rump of lamb, half-roast chicken or butternut squash and ale pie, served with all the trimmings and our signature red wine gravy. Throughout the Realmgate Wars, Sigmar’s centuries long crusade against Chaos in the Mortal Realms, there has never been a hero like Hamilcar Bear-Eater, famed Lord Castellant of the Astral Templars. The Bear, a breakneck series about a chef who comes home to Chicago to take over his late brother’s Italian beef spot, was arguably television’s biggest surprise hit of 2022.

And though it initially struck me as odd Carmy would have so many books from a region where he worked, Concepcion set me straight. David Guymer is a freelance author, PhD in molecular microbiology (which still comes in more handy than you might think), and tabletop warlord based in the Yorkshire East Riding. Earning praise from critics and restaurant industry lifers alike, the show offered a fresh portrayal of the business, one that was both loving and unflinching. Every cook and chef has a family member or a parent that will give them a cookbook,” Concepcion says. Catch all the action on TNT Sports with live Premier League matches, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League games.

Those aren’t exactly sexy subjects, but they are very real for actual restaurant owners, and The Bear manages to play them both for laughs in a way that actually succeeds. Obviously, diversity would be great, but I also want to see diversity of American regional cuisines, too, like American South, Cajun, Creole, all that stuff,” Concepcion says. Toward the end of Season 2, The Bear gets more into the nitty-gritty of running a restaurant, all fire suppression systems and ServSafe certifications.

But as with a real-life restaurant, the Original Beef needs an infusion of money to stay open, and survives only thanks to a stash of tomato cans stuffed with cash left behind by Mikey. The whole issue of funding is wrapped up pretty quickly — maybe too quickly, in fact — and Carmy and Sydney set an admittedly aggressive timeline of just 12 weeks to get their new restaurant ready for the public.

Now it’s back for Season 2, which finds Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) and the gang preparing to take on the only thing more challenging than turning around your family’s failing restaurant: transforming that failing restaurant into a bona fide fine dining destination. Bob Odenkirk is equally powerful as judgy Uncle Lee, who is the most emotionally measured member of this family. Matt Danko, a consultant on the show and the executive chef at the Emily Hotel, worked under the two while at Grace, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant.

Most of the mini is the bog-standard Lord-Castellan, but with a few exceptions: The head belongs to Lukas the Trickster, with a green stuff moustache. Viewers won’t see Curtis Duffy’s face while watching the second season of The Bear, but the chef of Michelin-starred Ever’s hands are all over the production. Carmy and Sydney head to visit Cicero (Oliver Platt), Carmy’s arguably shady uncle who gave Mikey the tomato-can money.

Whether you're backing England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, or Italy, catch the thrill of every Six Nations Rugby match at your nearby Beefeater. Maybe things fall into place just a little too quickly at times, but it’s as true as it can be to restaurant life without being bogged down in all the boring details. Sydney’s struggles don’t get the same depth of consideration as Carmy’s, and that’s a glaring flaw in this season. It’s not meant to be a permanent settlement at all, just a place for the boys to fight amongst themselves while they gather their numbers for the big fight ahead. Muser says there’s only a passing resemblance: “I relate to the character in the sense that he’s not going to just drink the Kool-Aid,” he says.

He has written for Black Library, Marvel, Aconyte Books, Asmodee, Mantic Games, Cubicle 7, Creative Assembly, and Mongoose Publishing. From mid-week meals to special occasions, we welcome all kinds of group bookings at the Black Bear Beefeater. Each Merrythought soft toy in the Traditional Collection is presented with a drawstring bag, to help keep your new companion clean and dust-free. Here are some takeaways — about Carmy, the state of the cookbook industry, and the culinary world at large.It’s The Bear’s distinct brand of gritty realism at its peak, which makes it very uncomfortable to watch, even though it’s nigh impossible to look away. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. But because Carmy and Sydney have figured it out before, we’re much more confident it’s going to work out this time. Duffy sorted through seven or eight exotic mushroom options in picking the ideal mushroom for Colman to peel with Ebon Moss-Bachrach. We wanted to make sure the character of Ghur was coming through in every scene – for example, you can see the bones of great beasts jutting out of the ground, and rock formations resembling vast rows of teeth in the background.