Baltimore man featured on Food Network’s ‘Chef Boot Camp’

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore gentleman was featured on the Foods Community on Thursday.

It was a section of the program’s present called “Chef Boot Camp.” 

Matt Edelstein stepped in to aid Max’s Taphouse in Fells Position for the duration of the pandemic. Like many dining places, it was battling mainly because of COVID-19, shedding its total kitchen workers. 

Edelstein, whose in-laws possess the restaurant, aided revamped their full menu. Even so, he has no culinary background as he is a psychologist who operates a clinic at Kennedy Krieger. 

Final 12 months, the Foods Community wished to showcase a restaurant strike really hard by the pandemic and selected Max’s to characteristic. 

Edelstein became the excellent selection to show up on the program’s demonstrate termed “Chef Boot Camp.” 

“The angle was this guy who just isn’t a chef is jumping in to support in the course of COVID,” he reported. 

The display shot scenes at the restaurant in September of 2021. Edelstein was also flown to New York where by he went by means of the boot camp. 

A experienced chef analyzed his capabilities, experienced him make foods and even style analyzed one of his greatest dishes.

Edelstein claimed it was a extremely interesting knowledge. 

He also reported it is really wonderful to get this type of exposure for the restaurant following its struggles due to the fact of the pandemic. 

“Now to have people today below sitting at the bar with no masks on, to have a kitchen staff, to have a Television set network kind of that includes the bar, it’s an unreal 180 from two several years back when practically this entire ground was just boxes of to go containers seeking to get a few bucks promoting what inventory they had,” Edelstein explained.

The exhibit aired at 10 p.m. Thursday and the restaurant held a view social gathering to celebrate.