After years of delays, Vanderpump Rules’ Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney are finally opening their Something About Her sandwich shop.
The new West Hollywood restaurant held its soft launch on Friday night and a bevy of stars from the Bravo world and the Vanderpump universe were on hand to help the ladies celebrate.
Andy Cohen walked in, which seemed to surprise Katie and Ariana. VPR alum Stassi Schroeder and her husband Beau Clark also showed up to show their support.
Kristen Doute, formerly of VPR and currently of The Valley, was present with her co-star Janet Caperna. Katie’s mother, Teri Maloney, and Ariana’s boyfriend, Daniel Wai, also showed their support.
The sandwich shop has been in the works for more than two years and will finally have its grand opening on May 22 at 10 a.m. at its location at 649 N Robertson Boulevard.
After years of delays, Vanderpump Rules’ Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney finally open their Something About Her sandwich shop
The new West Hollywood restaurant opened Friday night and a bevy of stars from the Bravo world and the Vanderpump universe were on hand to help the ladies celebrate.
The store’s interior may look familiar to romantic comedy fans.
‘It was designed by Jon Hutman, who is Nancy Meyers’ production designer. Great flexibility,” Katie shared. a Bravo video clip.
‘That was the whole inspiration for this sandwich shop in general. “We wanted it to feel like the energy of the main character in a romantic comedy.”
Ariana explained: ‘We also wanted it to feel like us. We wanted it to feel very Californian but European,” while Katie added, “California country meets European cafe.”
On May 16, Katie shared a photo of the restaurant and declared, ‘We have an awning!’, revealing that they got permission to put the bright and cheerful yellow and white awning back up.
One co-star who didn’t appear (aside from her exes Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz) was Lala Kent. Katie and Lala got into a fight at the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion.
Lala alleged that Katie had spoken off-camera before the season about how Ariana “abandoned her at the sandwich shop” and “wasn’t up to date on the sandwich shop rent.”
Katie admitted that she wished Ariana had given her a little heads up about coming to New York City to star in a Broadway show.
Lala said Katie made her look like the enemy.
“I think there were some people sitting here who lived in the comments section all season long,” Lala said. “Katie is one of them.”
Andy asked him if he thought his reaction was how viewers reacted to them.
‘It’s no secret that Ariana is a fan favorite, right?’ Lala said. ‘Don’t fuck with that. And I understand it.’
The store’s interior may look familiar to romantic comedy fans. ‘It was designed by Jon Hutman, who is Nancy Meyers’ production designer. Great flexibility,’ Katie shared in a Bravo video clip.
Andy Cohen stopped by, which seemed to surprise Katie and Ariana.
VPR alum Stassi Schroeder and her husband Beau Clark also showed up to show their support.
‘That was the whole inspiration for this sandwich shop in general. We wanted it to feel like the energy of the main character in a romantic comedy.
Kristen Doute, formerly of VPR and currently of The Valley, was present with her co-star Janet Caperna.
The sandwich shop has been in the works for more than two years and will finally have its grand opening on May 22 at 10 a.m. at its location at 649 N Robertson Boulevard.
Ariana explained: ‘We also wanted it to feel like us. We wanted it to feel very Californian but European,” while Katie added, “California countryside meets European coffee.”
Something About It offers a selection of hand-made gourmet sandwiches.
Kristen, Katie and Ariana clowned around in a selfie The Valley star posted to Instagram
Katie said she didn’t want to tell Ariana, so she turned to Lala, as a friend, to vent.
Lala said Katie lost her mind and said she wasn’t going to say anything critical about Ariana or how things went last summer because she invested a lot of money in the sandwich shop.
“And you told me, ‘If you’re going to screw up my business, Lala, then I’m going to screw up yours,'” Lala added.
And honestly, I wanted to tell you that Something About Her is really Nothing About Her right now. “You don’t have a business, and mine is my livelihood to support my son, so how dare you threaten to ruin it,” Lala said.
