He takes you on this journey,” Mendelsohn says. “All that is just stuff that dreams are made of, but that is exactly Patrick.
This year, the James Beard Foundation gave O’Connell its lifetime achievement award. The star’s flair for the dramatic pays off for production company Show of Force, which made the documentary as part of its development deal with D.C.-based celebrity chef Spike Mendelsohn, an executive producer on the project.ĭuring the course of filming, O’Connell celebrates the Inn’s 40th anniversary and achieves his ultimate goal of pushing the Inn to become the only restaurant in Michelin’s D.C. “Anything we do has to be extraordinary.” “It’s either art or garbage,” O’Connell explains in the trailer. Snippets viewers get from the movie include a scene in the trailer in which O’Connell tells a chef he “cut the Parmesan like a coal miner.”
Perhaps next time they go to a Michelin-starred restaurant, they may have a fuller appreciation for the value of the experience.” “My hope is that viewers will leave with a greater understanding of what it takes for a restaurant to survive and flourish for more than four decades. “The film paints an accurate, unvarnished picture of my life’s work,” O’Connell says in a statement sent to Eater.
