While perusing Food Network’s summer lineup — a familiar parade of seasonal returns like “The Great Food Truck Race” and brand extensions like “Guy’s Grocery Games: Global Games” — I found myself lingering over one new arrival in particular: “Kitchen Undercover.”
The series, according to press materials, is “a high-stakes, sneak-attack restaurant rescue” led by chef Antonia Lofaso and sous-chef Nestor Milian, who will “go full undercover, slipping into failing restaurants that are one more bad review away from total collapse.” Milian, we are told, will serve as the man on the inside, embedding himself with the staff, while Lofaso monitors the operation from an off-site command center — a phrase that suggests, thrillingly, less sauté station than Situation Room.
