Sunday, August 9, 2009   We all know Stefan should have won Top
Chef last season. Perhaps one of the reasons he didn't win was
because the Top Chef producers felt his personality was a bit
too abrasive and that, like Hung, he wouldn't be able to parlay
a win into attracting investors or opening a restaurant.  Well,
they were wrong. Stefan was and is abrasive and arrogant, but
he's also strangely likeable, particularly as a first runner up.
Now, he's opened a restaurant, Stefan's at LA Farm, that looks
like it's going to make some good money for him and his
investors.  I went there the first night Stefan's served dinner.
The restaurant wasn't crowded due to the lack of publicity at
that point, but there were like 3 hostesses and two bartenders
and tons of waitstaff and cooks. The restaurant is located on a
lonely dark stretch of Olympic so people are going to have to
make a little trek to eat at Stefan's. It's got a casual dark
lounge-ish feel. You can wear jeans and a tee shirt. Please
don't wear flip flops t