Richmond restaurant owner Francis Daniel will be a judge on the next episode of Food Network’s “Throwdown with Bobby Flay.”
Daniel owns Mrs. Marshall’s Carytown Café in, you guessed it, Carytown.
Bobby Flay will compete with Pentagon chef-sergeant Brad Turner, the executive chef at the Army Executive Dining Facility for The Pentagon. The show was filmed at Fort Lee in June and will air Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 9 p.m.
Francis will decide, along with Fort Lee’s Brig. Gen. Jesse R. Cross on who made the best barbecue chicken — and potato salad.
Mrs. Marshall’s Carytown Café is known for its potato salad, which is also sold at Ukrop’s Supermarkets.
According to Francis, it was a hard decision, but the winner is a secret.
Flay is an award-winning cookbook author; “Throwdown with Bobby Flay,” takes the chef from town to town battling local chefs at their specialty.
The Fort Lee episode isn’t Flay’s first foray into Virginia. A few years ago, he took on Buz Grossberg, rib master and owner of Buz and Ned’s Real Barbeque on the Boulevard, and lost.
