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Yes, schadenfreude fans, the episode of Kitchen Nightmares that TV food celebrity/reality host Gordon Ramsay filmed at Hampden’s own Café Hon last fall debuts tonight on Fox at 8 p.m. In case you haven’t seen the series, Ramsay drops in on a struggling restaurant each episode and tries to tough-love it back onto the...
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’Tis the season for eggs and French toast? It sure is feeling like it with several new brunches being offered recently. It’s not on the Café Hon web site yet, but according to the flier left at my door last weekend, the recently Gordon Ramsay-fied Hampden spot has returned Saturday and Sunday brunch to...
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Flanked by a celebrity chef, Denise Whiting formally renounced her trademark on the word Hon today, WBAL reports: “I didn’t mean to steal something, to take something. No one can ever steal or take or own the spirit of Baltimore and I apologize from the bottom of my heart for all of the pain...
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Baltimore restaurants are having their moment in the television spotlight recently. The Baltimore Sun reported this morning that Gordon Ramsay will be counseling Baltimore’s most outspoken Hon, Denise Whiting, in an upcoming episode of Kitchen Nightmares. Filming at Whiting’s Café Hon is scheduled to begin next week. The producers of BYUtv’s Turning Point series,...
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In the wake of recent revelations concerning Denise Whiting, owner of Hampden’s Café Hon, and her federal trademarking of the term “hon,” the people have spoken and then some. Now the potty-mouthed robot-voiced avatars are piping up.
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Denise Whiting’s efforts to trademark the word “Hon”—a la J Lo and her booty or Paris Hilton’s “that’s hot”—have pushed many Baltimoreans over the edge. Whiting’s hopes to profit off of Baltimore’s precious word have even got some people calling for massive unrest at next year’s Little Miss Hon competition. Local zine Smile, Hon,...
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