The last time Fat City wrote about chef and hot-dog entrepreneur Marshall Roth, he had closed his downtown frankfurter bistro, Dog Nuvo, and was looking for employment. Five weeks later, Roth is back in the kitchen. A state-of-the-art kitchen, he says.
"It's the most incredible kitchen I've ever seen," says Roth, who officially joined the culinary staff of the yet-unopened Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway this week. Marshall will be working as the room chef of the casino property's upscale steakhouse, the Final Cut Steakhouse.
"I'm really excited to be back doing what I love, fine dining," Roth says. "And I've never worked in a casino before. That's one of the things that really appeals to me."
James White, the executive chef of the Hollywood Casino restaurants (he was formerly executive chef at the casino's sister property in Missouri, the Argosy), says he was impressed by Roth's creativity during the interview process.
"Marshall really understood what we are trying to accomplish here," White says. "We speak the same language and have the same goals."
The Final Cut Steakhouse will be one of several specialty restaurants in the casino property, including the Epic Buffet and the Turn Two Sports Bar. "They all have views of the racetrack," White says.
Roth will oversee the kitchen in the dinner-only steakhouse — the casino is scheduled to open in early February. He has been doing menu tastings this week in the new kitchen, which he describes as "the best I've ever worked in. It has everything you can ever imagine in a restaurant kitchen."
"Marshall's going to be spoiled working there," White says.
I asked White — only half-jokingly — if Roth would ever have to cook a hot dog at the Final Cut.
"Not in that kitchen," White says, "but I'll definitely be consulting with him on hot dogs for some of our other restaurants."
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