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‘Dinner with the Band’ host Sam Mason loves Uchi, chicken-fried steak

Sam Mason fits in well in a city like Austin. The New York chef and host of “Dinner with the Band” on the Independent Film Channel has been in Austin this week, catching a handful of South by Southwest shows and eating well at places like the Broken Spoke and Uchi, where his friend and fellow pastry chef Philip Speer works.

Mason knows the beauty of a chicken-fried steak, but he also has the culinary creativity to serve a drink like beet sangria at a happy hour at the IFC Crossroads House during SXSW on Thursday, which is where videographer Jenni Jones and I caught up with him. Mason and his crew just finished shooting the first complete season of “Dinner with the Band,” during which Mason cooks for a hip, indie band and they return the favor with a live show in his living room. (The season premieres on April 27 at 9:30 p.m. CST.)

But don’t worry, the former wd-50 pastry chef hasn’t swapped his kitchen knives for the lavalier mics and bright lights of television entirely. He says he has a few brick-and-mortar projects up his sleeve.

Too bad he isn’t looking at commercial real estate here. We’ve got a good band or two who wouldn’t mind trading tunes for a fancy meal.

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