Unless you get an obscure HD channel called Mojo, you're not watching one of the best food TV shows out there. It's called After Hours with Daniel and the premise is pretty simple. Daniel Boulud hosts an afterhours party at a restaurant in NYC. He cooks one course, the restaurant prepares the rest and he invites luminaries of the restaurant scene plus some celebrities to round out the mix. They sit down together and the cameras roll. There's only been eight episodes, there probably won't be any more, and that's a shame, but what's there is fantastic.

For the episode at Daniel you had the following guest list:

• Eric Ripert (a culinary god)
• Jacques Pepin (another culinary god - we're polytheists)
• Drew Nieporent (the owner of the Myriad Restaurant Group, one of the most successful in the country)
• Ruth Reichl (former food editor of the NYT and the woman who wrote the most famous review in history of the janus-like nature of a previous incarnation of Le Cirque)
• Jeffery Steingarten (judge on Iron Chef America and food author)
• Dan Barber (owner of Blue Hill a farm AND restaurant)
• Ariane Daguin (owner of D'Artagan)
• Rocco Di Spirito (a former celebrity chef who famously crashed and burned on NBC's reality show The Restaurant)
• The chefs from Balthazar
• Tiki Barber
• A few minor celebrities ... and with the list above, who the fuck cares who they are

Can you just imagine sitting around a table with these people. Wow.