Filmmaker Liz Lachman hadn’t planned on directing a documentary. But in 2009, when her wife, Food Network star and restaurateur Susan Feniger, was in the process of conceiving and opening her first solo effort, Hollywood restaurant Street, Lachman grabbed her camera and started shooting the process. The result, “,” offers an intimate portrait of how there’s more to a restaurant’s success than popularity and stellar reviews. The film will have its West Coast debut on Oct.
“We went to Vietnam, Shanghai and Singapore to do street food tasting,” says Lachman. “I covered everything. I don’t know how I did it, but it’s all in there.” Feniger chimes in saying that although Street was a personal endeavor, she didn’t let its end alter her passion for her decades-long career in the culinary world. “In every field people have success and failures, and it all depends on how the failures affect them — and what they do or don’t do next.”
“We met at Border Grill in Santa Monica and Liz was there with two other women I knew, and with another who was her blind date,” says Feniger, who kept coming to the table to talk to everyone except for Liz.Chef Sanjay Rawat to lead new restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton