Selena Gomez is staying in the kitchen, except it will be a slightly more professional kitchen, for her next series.
The pop star, who hosted four seasons of Selena + Chef for Max as well as four-part series Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays for Food Network, is launching Selena + Restaurant.
The series will premiere on Food Network on May 2. It will see her head out of her home kitchen and into the kitchens of some of LA’s hottest restaurants.
Gomez will be joined by best friend, Raquelle Stevens with chefs Shirley Chung, Keith Corbin, Stephanie Izard, Andrew & Michelle Muñoz, Wolfgang Puck and Marcel Vigneron teaching and testing Gomez to see how quickly she can learn the ropes with the ultimate goal of creating a dish good enough to make each restaurant’s menu.
Restaurants include Chef Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant, Cut Steakhouse, in Beverly Hills, Ms Chi, Lemon Grove, Moo’s Craft Barbecue, Girl & the Goat and Alta.
Selena + Restaurant is produced by Gomez’s July Moon Productions, along with executive producers Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman on behalf of Sony Pictures Television’s The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), showrunner Shauna Minoprio, and Melissa Stokes.
“After cooking mostly virtually from my kitchen with some of the best chefs for the last four years, I was thrilled to step into their world,” said Gomez. “You’ll have to see if being in person helped my skills at all.”