“It’s been a long pregnancy,” says English, explaining the process of setting up a fine-dining restaurant. But when it’s pointed out that he has to watch statements like that dealing with Parker, he answers, “You’re right, I have to be careful about things like that. Sorry.” But standing behind the bar at Beso as he prepared for Thursday’s grand opening, he can’t help but go back to the baby place again. “It’s happening,” he says. “We are birthing the baby.”
While the Iron Chef competitor’s metaphors will no doubt set the tabloid world aflame, Parker and English hope to set the culinary world on fire with the Beso (Spanish for “kiss”). As employees madly placed the finishing touches to the historic Hollywood location, Parker admired the handiwork. “Everything is painted, every candle is lit, every glass has arrived,” she tells PEOPLE with a wave of her hand. “So we’re not like, ‘The chairs are not in!’ So far there has not been a catastrophic emergency happening. So I am very excited.”
“I’m a little nervous too,” she says. “But at least I don’t have to cook.” She could if she had to: Unlike spoiled Gabby on Desperate Housewives, Longoria knows how to work a frying pan: “You get pigeonholed into your character,” says English. “She’s a great cook, it comes from her soul.” Concurs Parker: “I’ll go to a restaurant and if I have an amazing dish I’ll go to the kitchen and ask the chef how he made it. And then I’ll make him teach me. You can ask [my husband] Tony [Parker], I do it all the time. I’ll leave him at the table for like 30 minutes.”
English says the actress has been very involved in the restaurant’s creation – from the etched Spanish poetry at the restaurant’s entrance (including one poem from Eva’s sister Emily), to picking out the three chandeliers which decorate the ceilings, to adding two specialties of the house – the guacamole and the tortilla soup. “I make the best guacamole in the world,” says Parker. “And my tortilla soup for which I am renowned for.”
First up to the table for Thursday’s opening, thrown by Hornitos tequila, will be Parker’s Desperate Housewives castmates. “We had a table ready today and everyone was like, ‘We cannot wait,” says Parker.”“Doug Savant, Felicity [Huffman] and Nicolette [Sheriden], they all live around here.
So, is Parker thinking Beso, the franchise? “Let’s tackle this one restaurant at a time,” she said.
Check out more pictures of Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Nicolette Sheridan & Sheryl Crow at the Grand Opening of Beso Restaurant in Hollywood, March 6th, under here.
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