The Bear is back for Season 4 on the 2025 TV schedule, and that means we get to watch all the kitchen chaos while also staring at so much delicious food. So, in preparation for that, I asked some of the cast about getting to eat the food on set. Along with explaining how they really do get to taste everything that’s made on The Bear, they revealed their all-time favorite dishes, too.
Abby Elliott Explained That They Get To Eat Everything On The Bear
In the lead-up to the Season 4 premiere of one of Hulu’s best shows, I interviewed Abby Elliott, who plays Sugar. During our chat, I asked her about all the delicious food we see on the series, and she told me that they get to eat a lot of the dishes seen on screen:
We do eat it. I mean, our culinary producer, [Courtney Storer], she’s incredible and she’s like this hospitality aficionado. So she literally will serve us as we’re in between setups. She’ll bring us focaccia with honey, and it’s like the best thing you’ve ever had. I’ve never worked on a show where the actual food that you’re eating is edible, let alone so elevated and delicious. So, yeah, I mean, I have to eat it all because it’s the best.
Hulu subscription makes my mouth water. So, if I were actually there, I’d need to try everything, and after hearing the cast’s favorite dishes, that statement became even more passionate.
SNL alum told me that Sydney’s iconic Boursin omelet went “unappreciated” by her at the time because she was pregnant and had an aversion to eggs. However, she’s since tried it again, and she told me “it’s unbelievable,” which I 1,000% believe.
Those two examples alone show off the range of dishes made for The Bear, and I’m about to prove that range again. While talking to Lionel Boyce, who plays beloved pastry chef Marcus on the show, I asked him about his favorite dish, too. In response, he told me about a king crab dish and a dessert focaccia that I need to taste ASAP:
Last season, there was this king crab dish, and you kind of see it again, I think at some point in the season, that was my favorite thing to eat. And I think this year there was a couple pastry things actually this year – it was a kind of a dessert focaccia that I don’t know if it ever even made it into the show. I think it was just on set. I think someone could have been experimenting. I don’t know what it was for. I just know I ate. It was like a cinnamon kind of focaccia, and I was like, ‘That was like a dream.’
However, my favorite answer from The Bear cast came from Liza Colón-Zayas, who plays Tina on the show. She threw it back to the OG dish when I asked her about the best food she’s eaten on the show, explaining:
There’s a couple of them, I will say, like being from the Bronx, I never had an Italian beef. So the beef dip, for the first time that was extraordinary. I would say the braised beef with those pureed potatoes was – I still dream about them.
I can’t help but daydream about eating one of those beef sandwiches whenever I watch the FX series, and I’d pay big money to actually try them. They look delectable!
Overall, I truly just want to try everything that’s concocted in The Bear’s kitchen, and I’m so happy that the cast gets to truly savor and enjoy it. It all looks marvelous, and maybe someday we’ll get to feast on these delicacies like these actors have over the last four seasons.