Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher’s latest venture has hit the wall.
The Donegal cook, who once boasted to be the youngest Michelin star chef, was hanging out in LA where he opened his latest venture ‘PoshBurger Bistro.
But after a series of mixed reviews and mishaps since it open in March, the restaurant has now closed.
Gallagher, 42, from Letterkenny, was doing the cooking at the restaurant in Summerlin while his wife Candice was working out front of the eaterie.
One famous newspaper, the Las Vegas Weekly, compared Gallagher’s burger menu to Noah’s Ark.
“The menu is like Noah’s Ark, as the more common Black Angus is accompanied by lamb, wild boar and venison,” although specials such as elk, ostrich and duck were “conspicuously absent during my visits,” said the reviewer.
The signs for the Donegal man’s latest venture looked ominous only weeks after opening.
Only a month after opening, employees reported that they weren’t getting paid.
Within two months, a local butcher reported that he wasn’t getting paid and another vendor said he reported PoshBurger to the district attorney’s office.
Gallagher said he had plans for a small Las Vegas empire which included a small boutique food, wine shop and cooking school store called Gallagher the Grocer.
However, this too appears to be on hold.
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