Lady Gaga’s new family restaurant is awful according to a top food critic. It looks like the Gaga establishment is a perfect candidate for Kitchen Nightmares and some desperately needed help form celeb chef Gordon Ramsey.
Lady Gaga’s New York restaurant is named Joanne Trattoria and is backed by the Gag and run by her parents Cynthia and Joseph. The joint was roundly criticized on opening night Wednesday for its “clueless” waiters and “unspeakably fatty” food. Food critic Steve Cuzzo wrote a damning review for the New York Post newspaper, entitled ‘You’ll gag on the food at Gagas.’
Cuzzo ranted: “You don’t expect a brand-new eatery to be running on all cylinders. But Joanne, owned by the pop superstar’s parents, last night was running mainly on acrid-smelling burnt vinegar wafting intermittently through the raucous dining room. Clueless busboys wandered the floor, performing no other function than to pour tap water into sparkling.”
“The Germanottas, [Art] Smith [chef] and Gaga herself, with the windiest hype machine east of the Pacific, have been trumpeting the joint for months. For Day One, couldn’t they at least get some people who act like they’ve seen the inside of a restaurant before?”
Cuzzo went on to slam the “overpriced” and “unspeakably fatty veal osso bucco,” complained about a 50-minute wait for food and branded the grilled calamari as “the worst I’ve had in a lifetime of squid-mongering.”
Lady Gaga needs to put in a personal call to Gordon… .
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