It’s the last Weekend of Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week and Wildest Restaurant + Bar in Palm Desert is participating. Co-Proprietress & Executive Chef Trilby Tatro takes a break from her busy kitchen to join us. For Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week Wildest Restaurant is showcasing a three-course, prix fixe dining experience (with options for each course) for $49.95. Entrée options are the guest’s choice of English Pea and Black Truffle Ravioli, Crispy Skin Market Fish or Braised Short Ribs. “Wildest Restaurant & Bar is a chef-driven, award-winning dining destination on El Paseo. Led by Chef Trilby Tatro, Owner Charissa Farley-Hay, and Manager/Sommelier Farouk Chaabi, Wildest showcases some of the most unique cuisine in the Coachella Valley. Signature dishes include grass-fed, pasture-raised rack of venison, Texas quail, Santa Barbara uni pasta, caviar service, and their cult-favorite trumpet mushroom “calamari.””

“Culinary Host & Restaurateur Chef Neal Fraser and Event Producer Shelby Russell are presenting the inaugural Hollywood on the Coast Food & Wine set for Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the iconic Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica. Shelby Russell joins us with all the event’s details including the benefit’s designated charities.

Restaurateur Dustin Trani of Trani’s Dockside Station, J. Trani’s Ristorante and Majestic in San Pedro is one of the high-profile participating chefs in Hollywood on the Coast. We’ll meet him.

Coastline Pizzeria in Mission Viejo is far more ambitious than your typical neighborhood pizza joint. It’s an effort of brothers Jason Martin and Gabe Wood. Their tagline is “East Coast Inspired and West Coast Crafted.” Rising above the pack they use no seed oils. The pizza dough is made in-house daily from scratch and allowed to properly rest and ferment. Their house-made mozzarella sticks, wings and fries are cooked in beef tallow to add extra flavor. Pizzaiolos Jason Martin and Gabe Wood take a break from their busy kitchen to join us in studio.

For our concluding segment at 11:45 a.m. our own Chef Andrew Gruel, the menu-maker behind the full-service Calico Fish House (located in the Sunset Beach area of Huntington Beach) provides another timely and informative “Ask the Chef” segment where he responds to listeners’ thoughtful inquiries. It’s Summer Grilling Season and Chef Andrew recaps his newly published series from American Gravy of “Grilling Mistakes That Are Ruining Your Cookout.”

All of this and heaping helpings of extra deliciousness on this week’s not-to-miss show!