Chez Zee Makes Jimmy Kimmel Go Bananas

Stopped at Chez Zee today for lunch, and heard the story of Jimmy Kimmel and owner Sharon Watkins’s Banana Cream Pie.

Seems that Sharon had just developed her new version of the pie. A couple of Kimmel staffers stopped in, tried the pie, and told Sharon that Banana Cream was Jimmy’s favorite pie. So Sharon whipped up another pie and brought it down to Kimmel.

He loved it and immediately tweeted about it to his five million followers. Care to guess how many pies were ordered the next the day at Chez Zee?

Ah the power of a well-fed celebrity.

Kimmel did more for Austin restaurants and bars in one week than many of our vaunted food and wine festivals have ever done.