The Bear Season 3 Premiers Tonight!
Yahoo News - Alright, chefs, get ready, because we’re firing 10 new episodes of The Bear early! Hulu and FX recently announced the newest season of the delicious culinary FX dramedy will be delivered three hours ahead of schedule, meaning The Bear Season 3 premieres this Wednesday, June 26 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. We last left our beloved kitchen staff reeling from their first night of service at their newly reopened restaurant, with Carmy trapped, post-meltdown in the walk-in freezer. While the cast — including Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — have been reserved about revealing the plot of Season 3, we know the show will pick up right where it left off. Are you ready to watch? Here’s everything you need to know about the new season of The Bear.
One of everybody's favorite summertime shows the past few years returns tonight on Hulu, and we're getting all 10 episodes in one go, so clear your schedule and get ready to binge. I personally don't love when shows dump every episode all at once because I can never watch them all the way through in one sitting like some people, and always feel like I'm behind watching and dodging spoilers. But to each their own.
From the looks of the trailers (the one above is the latest that Hulu has dropped), it appears that our boy Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) is back, still trying to turn that old sandwich joint into Chicago's next big fancy restaurant. He's got Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) by his side, and you know things are gonna get tense in the kitchen.
Carmy's aiming for a Michelin star, which means he's gonna be even more of a perfectionist maniac than usual. I think this season we can expect lots of kitchen drama, high stakes, and obviously more than a few meltdowns because that's what makes this show this show.
We've been on this show since day 1, and for good reason. It's not just a guilty pleasure at a time where there isn't really dick to watch on television besides House of Dragons, it's really well done.
If you haven't dove in yet, start with episode 1 of season 1. I don't think this is a show you can jump in during the middle of it and know what's going on because of how complex each of the characters are, how complex their back stories are, and how each of their relationships are tied together is all too important. Most of it is single shot and shows what seems to me, at least, to be the most realistic depiction of what a dinner time shift at a restaurant looks and feels like from the back of the house, and it is awesome.
Season two picked up where the first season left off, and one of my favorite things they did was flex a little of the muscle they grew through the popularity of season one, by incorporating some of the heaviest hitters in Chicago's food scene. (Arguably, and in my opinion, the best food city in America.)
There was a star studded premiere last night that included a ton of Chicago culinary star power -
Eater - When The Bear needed to source seafood for its star-studded “Fishes” episode, they turned to Publican Quality Meats’ Rob Levitt.
Levitt, who had a bit onscreen role in Season 2, says show reps asked him how to properly cook lobster. He ended up blanching them without knowing what they would be used for until he watched the award-winning episode. “And then I see Jamie Lee Curtis ‘cooking’ the lobsters that I cooked,” Levitt says. Curtis would win an Emmy for her role.
A contingent of Chicago’s restaurant community in town for Hollywood’s official premiere party for The Bear at the El Capitan Theatre. Both Publican Quality Meats’ Levitt and One Off Hospitality Group’s Donnie Madia and Loaf Lounge’s Sarah Mispagel-Lustbader, Ben Lustbader, and Cristina Gandarilla. Madia appeared on Season 2 in a scene filmed at Avec in West Loop, while Mispagel-Lustbader worked on Season 1 and famously created a chocolate cake for the show, inspired by Portillo’s. They were the only two Chicago businesses represented in the lineup.
Others included Pizzeria Bianco, Chris Bianco’s famous pizzeria with locations in Arizona and Los Angeles; Night + Market, LA’s famous Thai street food specialist; and Dave Beran from Pasjoli, a French restaurant in Santa Monica. Beran started his career in Chicago, working at Mk the Restaurant, Tru, and Alinea.
For anybody who knows anybody in the high end dining scene, you know the people involved in it, the real lifers, might be what you might call "snobs". They're perfectionists and accept nothing less than greatness. So for them to embrace and accept The Bear speaks volumes about how well the show is done.
Speaking of well-done, the show has also done an amazing job showcasing some of Chicago's staples. It deserved a lot of credit for catapulting the city's famed Italian beef to the top of the country's most wanted list.
The guy who plays cousin Richie went on Seth Meyers last week to promote the premier (which got moved up to today by the way), and gushed about how enticing the food is here.
Eater - Late Night’s Seth Meyers chatted with star Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richie Jerimovich) about eating in Chicago. Despite the show’s great pains to avoid Midwestern stereotypes, the pair couldn’t resist engaging in elitist coastal banter, albeit it was kind of funny. Moss-Bachrach declares his “blood has changed” after weeks of filming while enjoying Chicago food.
“My sodium levels go like through the roof, I kind of like it for Richie to have a kind, of sort of ruddy, puffy kind of swollen sort of [demeanor],” Moss-Bachrach tells Meyers. “I feel he’s sort of like half man and half hot dog in a way.”
Meyers replies: “You made a choice: you can either sit in makeup for three hours a day or just have a regular Chicago lunch”
Meyers (who lived in Chicago), and Moss-Bachrach also made conciliatory statements, both of which could be construed as efforts to avoid Chicagoans writing angry letters or emails to the network.
“It’s also like a pleasure to do that in Chicago,” Moss-Bachrach says, to which Meyers replies: “The way you can eat bad in Chicago is one of the best things in the world.”
Matty Matheson, the chef turned actor who plays Fak on the show is blowing up in his own regard. The loveable character has been signed on to an endorsement deal with Hellman's Mayo, and also dropped his hitlist of favorite Chicago restaurants and I gotta say he knocked it out of the park.
1- Lucia's on North Ave in Wicker Park fucks hard. Phenomenal meatball sandwich, great bread they use, amazing ambiance, and perfect spot to grab a lunch on the run or sit down business lunch.
2- Bavettes - not really sure what there is to say about this place that hasn't been said already. Hardest reservation in Chicago to get. Impossible to get into without booking a month in advance or lucking out with a cancellation. Hog Salt just does not miss and this might be their crown jewel. I know the NYC crowd is trying to claim them, and their Four Charles Prime, as their own, but they can get fucked. Hog Salt is Chicago through and through and Bavettes is arguably 1a or 1b best steakhouses, in the best steakhouse city in America. (El Che being the other in my opinion).
3- Birria Zaragosa - I admittedly have not been here yet but you better believe its on list now after hearing Matty describe it and seeing the pics of that birria goat. Wowzas.
4- Gene and Judes - hot dog king. Enough said.
5- Tufano's - In Chicago's old little Italy, which continues to fade away each year as more and more Subways and indian restaurants infiltrate Taylor St., this place might run the show. They're one of the oldest restaurants in the entire city, not just little Italy, they're still cash only, and one of the friendliest places you could ever hope to walk into. It's packed with regulars every night, and their dishes are humungous. And delicious. Joey, the owner, is the nicest guy ever, but I used to date one of the his daughters way back after college, and ever since we broke up I've been terrified to step foot in the place even though I get invited all the time. My go-to-move was to order from them (they have some of the best meatballs, sausage, and lemon chicken, in Chicago, and their antipasto is one of the best I've ever had in the world.) on Doordash. But they don't use them anymore so you can't get delivery anymore which sucks. But the place is an institution and should be on everybody's list.
6- Mr. Beef - this place is an enigma. The most random hours for a business you've ever seen. But they always deliver food wise. Consistency is key and these guys have nailed it for decades. Their beefs are excellent but don't sleep on their fries. Greasy and always cooked well done. Just how grease trap fries should always be.
The Bear season 3 kicks off at 8pm tonight on Hulu.