It was only a matter of time. Two of the most famous quarterbacks - well, quarterback and tight end, football nerds, calm down - in the NFL decided that winning championships wasn't enough. They needed to get into the restaurant business. Because nothing says 'I have too much money and not enough problems' like opening a steakhouse.
Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes launched 1587 Prime, their Kansas City steakhouse, and according to Bon Appétit, someone has already delivered a scathing review of the place. And honestly? We're here for every word of it.
Celebrity restaurants: a cursed genre
Here's the thing about celebrity restaurants - they exist in a very specific and treacherous food ecosystem. The hype is enormous, the expectations are sky-high, and the moment anything is slightly underwhelming, the internet collectively sharpens its knives. Literally and figuratively.
1587 Prime sits right in that crossfire. On one hand, Kelce and Mahomes have the kind of cultural cachet that could make people wait three hours for a mediocre breadstick. On the other hand, steakhouses are a serious business with serious regulars who did not come to take photos with a Taylor Swift adjacency joke.
The review heard 'round the sports world
Bon Appétit flagged the review as part of their broader look at food world drama - which also included Philz Coffee catching heat over a Pride flag controversy and a pizza place apparently predicting the future (unclear if this is a marketing stunt or genuine sorcery, but we respect the ambiguity).
The steakhouse review itself represents a very specific kind of cultural moment - the point where celebrity crossover into hospitality stops being cute and starts being subject to actual criticism. Which, frankly, is how it should work. Fame should not be a Teflon coating for bad food.
So should you go?
Look, if you're a Chiefs fan making a pilgrimage to Kansas City, you were probably going regardless of what any reviewer says. And if you're a serious steak person who judges a restaurant on its dry-age program and sauce work rather than its ownership's touchdown stats, you might want to read that review first.
Either way, the fact that 1587 Prime is already generating this kind of conversation means Kelce and Mahomes have succeeded at one thing every restaurateur desperately wants - people are talking about it. Whether they're talking about the food is a different question entirely.
