If you ask someone to name their favorite restaurant, you're likely to get a revealing answer. A joint, a dive, a café -- a person’s response to this question can represent the beginning of their history, a celebration of their culture, or perhaps a glimpse into their obsession with an amazing cheeseburger. To Dine For uses this very question as a foundation for a conversation with the world’s most brilliant and innovative minds. In this 10-episode series, we go with 10 different guests to their favorite restaurant wherever that is in the world. We experience the atmosphere, the location, the ambience, and we eat what they love. Then we hear how they made it, how they struggled, how they define the American dream and how they have tried to achieve it. The guests featured on this show are the "go getters" and the "creators" and the "dreamers" that are turning nothing into something. They are entrepreneurs, change agents, musicians, actors, newsmakers and truly fascinating people who are changing the world and this show is an invitation to a meal with them and a toast to them.
Food is the beginning of every culture. It is the one thing that connects us all despite different races, religions, and beliefs. A shared love of food and conversation transcends any border. Everyone can appreciate a good meal and even better conversation. The vision for this show is to take people who have reached "uncommon success" through their own ingenuity and innovation and put them in their all-time favorite restaurant. Kate Sullivan, a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, traveler, and life-long foodie, will host the series. Kate has spent 18 years in small, medium, and large television markets across the US. For the last 10 years she has been the primary evening news anchor for CBS Chicago and the morning news anchor for CBS New York. Her passion for storytelling is undeniable. While Kate will drive the show as host, the true stars are the guests, the food, and the locations. The viewer is invited along for a fantastic meal in a new location to engage in conversation with inspiring people. The show is intended to be entertaining and aspirational to new points of travel, restaurants to experience, and ideas to digest.
To Dine For is a celebration of the American dream. This show will transport viewers to many cities to see and taste and experience food from all walks of life but the food is just the first course. Since all of the guests have created “something out of nothing”, the ideas and lessons learned will be the main entrée and hopefully will leave the viewer hungry for more.