BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Picture it: A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been remodeled into the set of a 1980s sitcom about four females living in Miami — but it’s also a doing work restaurant.
Reservations have been likely quickly at the recently opened The Golden Women Kitchen area. Some patrons have occur from out of condition to see the pop-up eatery.
Joe Saunders, of Cranston, Rhode Island, his two teenage children and their mom were browsing Northern California when they uncovered about the pop-up. So they designed a exclusive vacation south just to see it.
“I was a tiny hesitant about coming but my kids’ mom genuinely needed to appear,” claimed Saunders, who was sporting a T-shirt referencing the sitcom’s fictitious Shady Pines retirement residence. “It’s been a superior time… the lasagna, the strawberry daiquiri and I’m going to have a piece of cake with ice cream, too.”
Thirty yrs soon after “The Golden Girls” finished on NBC, fans however can not enable go of the sitcom about four housemates — Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia — bonding above growing old, relationship and cheesecake. The initially month of reservations marketed out in advance of the pop-up opened July 30, which the world-wide-web deems Countrywide Golden Women Working day. It is just the most current illustration of the comedy climbing to pop lifestyle relevancy again. In just the earlier handful of months, the very first at any time Golden-Con fan conference was held in Chicago and a pilot for an animated, futuristic “Golden Girls” sequence is remaining shopped all over.
Bucket Listers, an on the web gatherings organization, structured the pop-up. It had the blessing of Disney, which owns the legal rights to “Golden Ladies.” So, organizers had been free to put Easter Egg references in the decor and the menu. Upon walking in, fans are right away greeted by a bartender at the Shady Pines bar. Additional inside of is a reproduction of the women’s kitchen counter, total with a yellow wall cellular phone. Driving the eating room is a recreation of Blanche’s bed room, which includes the iconic banana leaf bedspread and wallpaper.
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