Millionaire Matchmaker Recap: Come and Yigit it!

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   Nelliebelle1197
   Posted March 7, 2013 at 8:12 pm

   This is Yigit from Top Chef Just Desserts. He was very gay married during his season

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   portia
   Posted March 7, 2013 at 10:00 pm

   I hate Yigit. There I said it. He was 100% on this show for publicity for his new shop. His new shop is awful. He does not make anything that is sold there, yet his name is used for the PR because they can then use the ‘Top Chef’ tag. He is also very rarely there, but still charge ridiculous prices for bad quality products because his name is attached. A bunch of the stuff in his shop is factory made & bought, they simply fill it up at the Tout Sweet kitchen (ex – lemon tart shells are bought, then they fill it with the lemon curd). The kitchen is not on site and is the same kitchen he was using when he was a pastry chef for a catering company in SF. The owner of the catering company Yigit ‘works’ for helped buy Yigit’s way onto Top Chef (that is how most of the chefs get onto shows like that, their PR person helps them, or they have connections). Now she is partnered with Yigit in his new shop and she also helped him publish his first book (coming this Fall).

   He has become the worst type of celebrity chef. He now thinks he is too good for the kitchen, ie the grunt work. He also thinks he is a bigger celebrity than he really is. I saw him at a function in SF, no one really noticed him, but when Michael Mina or Hubert Keller walked around, everyone wanted pictures. But Yigit was walking around like everyone should have know who he was. Elizabeth Falkner is going the same direction and wants to become a celebrity chef. However, she can still cook & bake most chefs under the table. And she still wants to get dirty and be in the kitchen (it might just be the Iron Chef kitchen though).

   Oh, he is also so far away from becoming a millionaire. He was a Pastry Chef for a catering company (semi-large, but not the fanciest or highest of the high end here in SF), then he won Top Chef (don’t know what the prize money was for that), but then he opened Tout Sweet. Maybe Janet (the owner of the catering company) fronted all the money, but I doubt it since the space (inside Union Square Macy’s in SF) required a full build out. It easily cost well over half a million by the time it opened for business. Unless Yigit has family money, or maybe won the lotto, he is not a millionaire or on his way to becoming one.

   Sorry end rant.

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   Valleygirl
   Posted March 7, 2013 at 11:17 pm

   Ugh I did not like Yigit (which I never pronounce like Yeate) during Top Chef JD. He was completely arrogant then and extremely off putting. So I was sooooo glad when he left Chris Salvatore alone!!! Chris is super sweet and a big deal in the LGBT community. He deserves better than pretentious assholes like Yigit.

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   SexyPanda
   Posted March 8, 2013 at 5:24 am

   Valleygirl, is that Chris who was on the show this week, you mean? the not-George-Michael singer guy?

   I’d definitely follow Hubert Keller around and try to get a photo with him. I LOVE him. I walked through shady neighborhoods late at night to get to the casino in St. Louis where his Burger Bar is located, just so I could try a Hubert Keller burger. Guess what? It was fantastic (I know, I know, he didn’t personally make it). So were the fries. And my cocktail. Worth the sketchy walk (and saved an otherwise awful business trip).

   I didn’t get a good feeling at all about Yigit, so none of the rant surprises me!!

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   eyediosmio
   Posted March 8, 2013 at 6:33 am

   Does it make me a total mushpot that I am usually rooting for one of these dates to pan out and turn into a real love story? Yes? Oh wellz!

   Yigit is yucky. Ew. And Johnny was just probably a nervous normal guy, who is kind of shy. Which can translate weird onscreen.

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   adelefig
   Posted March 8, 2013 at 7:40 am

   What I cannot understand is why would anyone take advice from Patti?? Or for that matter buy her book? She can’t even manage to get herself married! And so many of her comments are cringe worthy…..”Cock smells cock?”…..”are you a tits or an ass man?” … and on and on……. ridiculous.

   how old is Patti? Anyone know? She just comes across as pathetic to me…..and probably lonely…..

   getting off soapbox now……;-)

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   SexyPanda
   Posted March 8, 2013 at 8:16 am

   She’s 50-something?

   Classic case of the shoemaker’s daughter, me thinks.

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   crankyguy
   Posted March 8, 2013 at 9:04 am

   @portia — thanks for your take on Yigit. I saw this recap and could not figure out how anybody in his twenties had become a millionaire by working as a pastry chef. Hey kids! Fuck four years of medical medical school after four years of college; the real money comes from two years of culinary school straight out of high school.

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   Jaime Sommers
   Posted March 8, 2013 at 10:22 am

   I, Jaime Sommers (my screen name, not my real name, but she also had a German shepherd named Maximillion!) LOVE German shepherds and wrote a memoir about mine! If you like GSDs, you’d probably like my book. It’s very funny. I won’t put a link to it unless someone is seriously interested.

   But they are the best dogs. Smart, beautiful, protective and versatile.

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    Nelliebelle1197
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 10:45 am

    Cranky, I am pretty sure he is self-taught, if I remember TC:JD correctly.

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 11:32 am

    @adelefig: the dating show where the matchmaker was in a relationship and offered relatable advice got cancelled, so we’re stuck with anyone who kisses Andy’s ass for screen time.

    @sexypanda: Every time Patti has a gay episode, it’s usually a Bravo gay. Remember, MDL: LA’s Madison going on a date with a really attractive guy who was into him, but since Madison is the living embodiment of a Ken Doll, he completely botched it.

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    Valleygirl
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 12:21 pm

    @sexy panda: yes! Haha he does these super camp gay movies but he is a pretty big activist.

    And I love Hubert too so I def get that. I didn’t know he had a burger bar though!!! I need to be there. Like now.

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    crankyguy
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Are we talking about the famous $3000 burger? I think for that price, you get TWO burgers, an expensive bottle of wine, get to keep the two wine glasses, and get a signed certificate proving that you have had the $3000 burger and wine experience.

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    crankyguy
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    @Nelliebelle — even better! The last time I heard, the Culinary Institute of America was charging about $30k per year for tuition. That means Yigit is $60,000 richer for teaching himself, not to even mention the money that he was earning instead of pissing away his time in culinary school. That’ s 6% of being a millionaire right there.

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    portia
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    I love Hubert. However, Burger Bar in SF is awful. The quality of food is sub-par, there is no place to wait. The view is nice if you are lucky enough to get a window seat. I was dining there one time (I have been a couple of times) when Hubert came by to chat. That time was the only time it was delicious & hot. But I am guessing that was more because we knew the owner/chef.

    Hubert is so nice in person too. I have not worked with him in a kitchen but I did an event where our display tables were next to each other. His wife loved our treats so much she asked for some to take home. To make Hubert even more awesome – at another even we were both at, there was a chefs only after party and Hubert got up on the stage and DJ-ed. It was great.

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    SexyPanda
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    No no, not the Fluer burger! Mine was less than $20. Though that thing looked fucking awesome on whatever show it was on. Something with Andrew Zimern, I think?

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    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 5:30 pm

    “Cock will smell cock.” Lovely.

    Merchant marines would be turned off by that beast’s mouth.

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    lindaw205
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 5:41 pm

    I saw Yigit on JD, too. He was such a conceited ass.

    By the way, I don’t watch this show because Patti annoys me so much and her advice is so shallow and juvenile. It’s obvious the people who come on are just trying to promote something. But I saw the picture of Yeat and just had to comment. Didn’t he dump his boyfriend (or was it husband, can’t remember) right after winning TCJD?

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    Wendy
    Posted March 9, 2013 at 12:33 am

    random factoid, but Yigit and my sister were staying at the same hotel during my sister’s birthday (last Sept). Yigit and his boyfriend played with her dogs. So he was taken at that time. When does Millionaire Matchmaker film their episodes? Either this break-up of his happened really soon before the filming or he found a new boyfriend right after filming? Or maybe he already had a boyfriend when he went on the show and just went on to promote Tout Sweet (explains why there was no kissing)?

    I thought Tout Sweet tasted really good when I went there. I loved the cream puffs. Then again, I’m no dessert expert and have no idea on how the desserts were made.

    Also, ditto to the Burger Bar being terrible. I love Hubert Keller, but that place is a total tourist trap.

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    prissy1
    Posted March 10, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    Tamara was on Rock of Love or some similar show…..

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    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted March 11, 2013 at 5:06 am

    Yigit only being on Millionaire Matchmater to promote his brand would explain the no kissing, as Wendy pointed out, and also explain why anyone would go to PATTI STANGER for matchmaking services. Because if you weren’t there for some alternative reason, after about 20 seconds in her presence, you’d be wondering “Am I the one with the brain injury, or is it her??”

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    Tamitha
    Posted March 15, 2013 at 1:09 am

    First, let me say that I found the cinderella joke hysterical enough to immediately call my fiance, interrupting him at work, to tell it to him. He thought it was hilarious too. As did his co-workers, customers, and his boss. I was on speakerphone, apparently. *sigh*

    I was also disturbed by yigit and gaspar’s sexual joking in front of the kids. So not cool. AT ALL.

    Promoting going “from single to married in a year” is redic. And from a “relationship/dating expert”? Really? That, in itself, as a concept, is unreasonable and unrealistic. Stupid shit, Patti.

    Lastly, I am SO over Patti urging her clients and daters to always kiss on the first date. I am all for kissing on the first date, IF it’s optimal/appropriate/mutually comfortable. Sometimes, it just doesn’t feel like a good opportunity presents itself during the date. Not that either person is against it, it just doesn’t happen. I hardly see this as a failure. I would MUCH rather a guy i’m on a date with wait till our next date than do that whole I-can’t-find-the right-moment-so-i’m-going-to-awkwardly-interuppt-you-in-mid-sentence-by-grabbing-you-and-going-for-it bullshit. I HATE that shit, and it is a major turn off. An awkward kiss is worse than no kiss. End of story.

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    SexyPanda
    Posted March 15, 2013 at 9:50 am

    I actually agree! You can tell a lot from a kiss, but it’s always going to be bad news if it’s done at a crappy time!