He and Favreau continued to find ways to collaborate and work together. style of Korean food, at the Park MGM hotel. In 2018, Choi opened Best Friend, a restaurant that pays homage to his Kogi BBQ trucks and his distinct L.A. “Also, for me with Jon, the most important thing was our friendship.”Īfter the Cubano pop-up, Favreau would look at spaces and hint at opening a restaurant, but Choi refused. “It took so long to open something because you know the restaurant business, and especially the celebrity restaurant never ends up turning out the way maybe actors or producers want them to because they end up being brought down to reality with the daily grind of a restaurant,” Choi says. “I would say to Roy, ‘Hey, we should do a restaurant.’”
“I always wished we could do something more permanent,” Favreau says during a recent call with he and Choi.
