After eight seasons traveling the world for his Netflix series "Somebody Feed Phil," Phil Rosenthal's next food adventure is keeping him much closer to home. The 65-year-old producer is opening a neighborhood spot in Los Angeles called Max and Helen's.
"This is a hundred-year-old neighborhood," Rosenthal said. "I want it to look like we found a hundred-year-old diner and it's been here for a hundred years."
The diner, set to open later this month in Larchmont, is named for Rosenthal's late parents, who were regulars on his travel show and inspired characters in "Everybody Loves Raymond," the CBS sitcom he co-created nearly 30 years ago.
The menu will lean on comfort food: Powdered donut holes, sourdough waffles with maple butter and fluffy scrambled eggs, a nod to his father's favorite