

The sandwich is a spicy, saucy sandwich with housemade BBQ sauce - using 40 ingredients for the sauce alone. Food Network Star winner Justin Warner will also appear as a special guest, trying the food at Urban Chislic with Fieri. “It sounded too good to be true,” he said.įieri tried the pork chislic BBQ sandwich and the regret burger at Urban Chislic. He sat in the parking lot of his chiropractor talking with the scout - arriving late to his appointment because he was so focused on the opportunity. Phrommany received the call from show scouts, and he nearly didn’t believe it. Owners Erik Christensen, Hong Phrommany and Chad Knudtson stayed off screen for the show, but they enjoyed getting to be part of the production. Viewers will see Urban Chislic Corporate Chef Ryan Pederson showing Fieri the way in the kitchen. While chislic is traditionally cubed, fried mutton served on a skewer, Urban Chislic uses a variety of meats and incorporates the food into different dishes. 85th St., and it offers a spin on the food. And Fieri took that to heart, committing to try the state nosh at one of Sioux Falls’ chislic restaurants: Urban Chislic. You can’t visit South Dakota and not try chislic. Normally, we’d have tons of call-in orders, but not right now” “Unfortunately, I’m seeing places close left and right,” Thornton said. He’s been struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic as less people eat out or order take-out from the restaurant - a common struggle this year for restaurants. Thornton hopes that message will stick soon after the show airs. “He joked that I should change my name from O So Good to ‘Collard Greens and Cornbread Palace,’” Thornton said.Īnd then Fieri continued to surprise him: “If this town doesn’t realize what they have here, I don’t know what to tell you,” Thornton recalled him saying off camera. The cheesy shrimp hotplate comes with a side of fried red potato chips and cornbread as well. And since Fieri visited the business, collard greens have been in high demand, he said. Thornton’s collard greens are pork-based greens with carrots, peppers, onions and garlic. “Guy Fieri is in my building in Garretson, South Dakota.” While he’s normally sociable and outgoing, cracking jokes at every chance he gets, he said he will appear quiet on screen.

Thornton worries that he won’t appear on screen like many restaurant-goers recognize him in person. On the show, viewers will get to see Thornton prepare his signature jerk chicken dinner, shrimp cheesy hot plate and a side of collard greens.

“The fan club that I do have tends to hype me up,” he joked. The scouter told Thornton that part of their appeal to his restaurant was that several people wrote into the production company, saying he had to be featured. Thornton had been scouted for an appearance on the popular Food Network show that showcases local eateries around the U.S.

in Garretson, got a call from a woman saying she wanted him to appear on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives,” he thought it wasn’t real. So when the owner of O So Good, at 529 N. He grew up watching the channel’s shows, dreaming up dishes for competitions with his daughter. It’s always been Omar Thornton’s dream to appear on the Food Network channel.
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29 at Look’s Marketplace, “Guy Fieri is digging into both meat and sweet, starting in Sioux Falls, S.D., a market-butcher eatery servin’ up a full culinary extravaganza.”įirst up on this weekend’s “South Dakota Smorgasbord?”
