Phil Rosenthal serves up comfort food and memories at Max and Helen’s

After eight seasons traveling around the world, for his Netflix series “someone feeds Fila”, the next adventure of Phil Rosental holds it much closer to the house. The 65-year-old producer opens a place in Los Angeles called Max and Helen.

“This is a centenary district,” Rosenthal said. “I want it to look like we have found a centenary, and it was here for a hundred years.”

The diner, which will be opened at the end of this month in Larchmont, is named after the late parents of Rosental, who were regular customers on his travels and inspired the characters to “Everyone loves Raymond”, the comedy series CBS, which he created almost 30 years ago.

The menu will be based on comfortable food: powdered holes for donuts, winding waffles with maple oil and fluffy fried eggs, nodding his father's favorite dish.

“My dad loved fluffy eggs so much on his tombstone, says:“ My eggs are fluffy? “, – said Rosental. “A lesson for me: if you can find a simple joy in your life, maybe you will be happy every day.”

Rosenthal became reflective, speaking of the absence of a father.

“I become a little emotional that he cannot be here for this ideal performance that he loved most,” he said.

Creating the world “Everyone loves reamonda”

Simplicity, Rosental said, has always been the key to his work. “Everyone loves Raymond” He ran for nine years, avoiding relevant humor.

“You are not joking in the 90s Bill Clinton,” he said. “You do what seems eternal.”

After Rosenthal tried his best to find the continuation of the sitcom, Rosenthal broke his Netflix show with one line: “I am exactly the same as Anthony Burden if he was afraid of everything.” A series of food and travel turned into an unexpected blow, even causing sold crowds when Rosenthal told about this in the tour. “Ray [Romano] He went out with me on stage and could not believe in the size of the crowd, ”he said.

Rosental invited the famous chef Nancy Silverton as an executive chef, while his future son-in-law Mason Royal will manage the kitchen. In addition to food, he hopes that the snack will be fixed by his surroundings.

“Visitors disappear from America,” he said. “They become centers of communities …. If the center of the community disappears, maybe you lose a sense of community, and then, perhaps, you will lose the country. So I'm going to fix everything with my diner. ”

Its production company is called Lucky Bastards, a label that is still suitable when it finds a new joy in simple pleasures and fresh projects of 65.

But Rosental dismissed any proposal for retirement.

“I could. This is not fun, ”he said. “If you think that you need to say something, or what needs to be done, or do you feel that your work affects one guy or one small child, who wants to stop?”

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