BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Picture it: A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been transformed into the set of a 1980s sitcom about 4 ladies residing in Miami — but it truly is also a doing the job restaurant.
Reservations have been likely speedy at the recently opened The Golden Women Kitchen. Some patrons have appear from out of state to see the pop-up eatery.
Joe Saunders, of Cranston, Rhode Island, his two teenage little ones and their mother have been going to Northern California when they realized about the pop-up. So they made a unique journey south just to see it.
“I was a very little hesitant about coming but my kids’ mother really required to come,” reported Saunders, who was carrying a T-shirt referencing the sitcom’s fictitious Shady Pines retirement household. “It’s been a superior time… the lasagna, the strawberry daiquiri and I am going to have a piece of cake with ice cream, far too.”
Thirty many years soon after “The Golden Girls” finished on NBC, supporters however are unable to allow go of the sitcom about 4 housemates — Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia — bonding above growing older, courting and cheesecake. The to start with month of reservations bought out ahead of the pop-up opened July 30, which the net deems Countrywide Golden Girls Working day. It is just the latest example of the comedy climbing to pop tradition relevancy once more. In just the previous couple of months, the initially ever Golden-Con admirer convention was held in Chicago and a pilot for an animated, futuristic “Golden Girls” series is being shopped all over.
Bucket Listers, an on the net gatherings corporation, structured the pop-up. It had the blessing of Disney, which owns the legal rights to “Golden Girls.” So, organizers ended up no cost to set Easter Egg references in the decor and the menu. On going for walks in, followers are instantly greeted by a bartender at the Shady Pines bar. More within is a reproduction of the women’s kitchen counter, full with a yellow wall mobile phone. At the rear of the dining space is a recreation of Blanche’s bed room, like the legendary banana leaf bedspread and wallpaper.
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