as to the comment on "Hon"...It was meant as a courtesy or a friendly way to greet someone on the avenue in "Highlandtown". If this is her trademark, she stole it from many a person in Baltimore neighborhoods.

This is, as they say, PRICELESS!!!! Denise Whiting does the ridiculously arrogant move of saying that she legally owns the word HON, and then she wonders why people are turned off? Then, to compound her own egomania, she somehow gets Kitchen Nightmares to come in and help her rebound? Why does she deserve this makeover? Isn't the premise of the show to help restaurants that are in terrible financial trouble? Or owners who have shoveled all of their hard earned money into their businesses only to find themselves still in dire circumstances? No one I know has ever seen Ms. Whiting ever reduce her overpriced menu, or do anything to make her business more amenable to the community. Maybe Gordon Ramsey can teach her a lesson in humility. I hope so. She has lost all respect here in Baltimore.

I like Chef Ramsey, but even if he had a limo to pick me up, and gave me a free meal, I will never go into" Cafe Hon". Never have, never will.

Controversy aside, the show is to improve the restaurants menu and service. At Cafe Hon, both are terrible! It stays in business because it's a tourist trap! Visitors are sold the John Waters old Baltimore Hairspray experience but receive rude service and substandard food. I've eaten there 2x. After having a dried out burger made with rotted meat (the night I moved to Hampden) I vowed never to go back. Friends visiting begged me to take them for Breakfast, and they were equally disappointed. It will be interesting to see what Chef Ramsey finds in the Kitchen and behind the cashregister