Most days, Michael Walker couldn’t transfer his Italian beef sandwiches with a lot ease — he’d promote perhaps 10 all day at his Los Angeles pop-up, Comfortable Pup. Then, on June 26, he offered out of the meat inside two hours of organising his meals stall.

Such is the ability of “The Bear,” the FX sequence that had premiered days earlier and rapidly discovered itself on the coronary heart of an ongoing discourse on chef life, grief, kitchen PTSD and, after all, Italian beef, the beloved Chicago dish that’s featured prominently on the present. Southern California cooks already enamored of the drenched, fragrant sandwich wish to consider the actual leap in recognition is solely the rising attract of considered one of Chicago’s most iconic meals, and so they’re hoping it’s right here to remain in L.A.