Little River Not Pretty Enough For Good Morning America
Good Morning America "visited" Red Light — or so they say:
While in Key Biscane [sic], Fla., Sam Champion visited the Red Light restaurant, which will be a year old in April and the brainchild of South Florida chef Kris Wessel. Wessel is originally from New Orleans, but his grandmother landed in Miami Beach in 1925 and built the restaurant inside of a notorious prostitute- and drug-filled motel on Biscayne Boulevard in the heart of Miami.Huh? Seriously? We're scratching our heads over the grandmother thing — is that just abysmally worded, or is there more to this restaurant's history than Wessel let on to us?
The restaurant is also very much NOT on Key Biscayne, although it's pretty clear the segment was shot there, with a beautiful view of the bay in the background. We're assuming GMA was in the area for the Sony Ericsson Open, held on Key Biscayne. (We didn't catch the show, and the video is apparently nowhere to be found on the GMA site.) So it was likely easier, and more picturesque than that Upper East Side stretch of Biscayne Boulevard, to do the segment nearby, although it would seem weird talking about the motel's checkered past and the Little River as an urban haven for manatees while filming Wessel in a neighborhood with a six-figure median family income. (Wessel, by the way, demonstrated how to make Red Light Snapper, with a red lentil salad and tomatoes, conch ceviche with citrus and hot sauce, and a key lime and mulberry parfait on the show.)
In the end, a local guy who's putting out great food is getting national coverage, which is always a good thing.
Sam Visits Florida's Red Light Restaurant [ABC News]
Photo: ABC News
