Chef Robert Irvine Live! Tickets

Our family had a fantastic time at Robert Irvine Live in Durham, NC We met Robert at Hilton Head in 2008 when out son was undergoing chemo and radiation for leukemia. Robert called him and has kept up with him since. He has such a heart for helping others! That heart is much bigger than those huge biceps. We enjoyed the show so much--not scripted and lots of audience participation! Loved the videos that showed all the good things Robert and his team do for others. Would highly recommend this show! If he comes near our hometown again, you can bet the Wilson family will be there!!

If you are looking for a great night out this is a perfect show for that. Great show and great job of getting the audience involved as much as possible. The show lasted about 2-1/2 hours with no breaks, always something going on. If you are a Food Network fan or a fan of Robert Irvine I highly recommend going to the show. Robert stayed for hours after the show to meet every guest and sign whatever you wanted him to sign as well as having a photographer there to take you picture. GREAT GUY & GREAT NIGHT !!

Our family has had the pleasure of meeting Chef Robert on two occasions. I will sum up briefly by saying what a positive person he is to be around. We saw Chef Robert Irvine Live in Baltimore 02-13-2015 at The Hippadrone. We also did the V.I.P. expierence. Having a few minutes before the live show was a blast. You get to hear some wondeful stories and see the person beyond what the television person really is. This man really cares about others and gives back countlessly. We were able to ask questions and get very frank answers. His positive outlook on life was shinning already. He lead us through stories of his work with teh USO. Feeding so many of our troops and thanking them for their service. He took pictures with each person there. Now on to the live show. The live show is as advertised no scripted. If you are looking for a commercial production of someone just cooking in front of you than this may not be for you. But what the live show is was truly very fun, relaxing, and totaly enjoyable. There is much audience participation and interaction. Many volunteers were called to the stage.The man put on a two an done half hour show ( after meeting us at the VIP experience). Then signed autographs and pictures for another two plus hours. Back to the show. What I saw was a person who is joyous and understands what helping others truly means. He lead us thorugh his different works of Dinner Impossible, Restaurant Impossible and the live show. There were clips of both his Food Network shows. More importantly clips of his USO tours and events. His giving back to our fine men and women who serve to protect our freedom. If I heard correctly at the time he has prepared meals for over 122,000 of those who have served. It is something you do not hear or see about often on his food network shows. The live show is I believe a wonderful showcase to learn more about Chef Robert Irvine. You get to see what I think is a person who is truly greatful for many things. Thankful of the oprtunity to be able to spread his joy and positivity. Our 12 year old really enjoyed meeting him. In listening he does an awful alot of charity work with children as well. Our daugher is a special needs child and it was wonderful to hear about his work at the Double H Ranch in New York. Final thoughts, the show was well fun and entertaining. I will say we left there feeling uplifted if you will will from his spread of positvity. With all the negative news and media we see on a daily basis it is nice to get a break from that and expierence a postive show. Please go see the show and see for yourself. It was a blast!!

great show and so much fun laughing at some of the stuff he does. Would tell people to buy tickets for the show anytime

I was really looking forward to the show, and I wasn't disappointed. I feel that we learned a lot about Robert and his staff. The cooking was fun to watch, and I loved the audience participation. Robert stayed afterward for signings and a free pro photo. We were near the end of the line, and he was gracious and fun.

Since my family and I have been watching Restaurant Impossible, meeting Chef Irvine has been on my bucket list. As soon as I discovered he was going to be in NC, I booked tickets and took leave to drive to Durham. The show was great! There was so much energy and excitement that filled the room. He gets people moving, and excited. A good amount of people had the opportunity to be apart of the show as volunteers (myself included :) ). It wasn't what I expected. Besides watching him cook, there was also segments shown from his shows and visits to Military bases. This is something I truly appreciate, because it gives a better look of what he does. He is very genuine in all that he does, and it shows. To me, it was not just fun, but it was inspirational! I highly recommend it! Also he does stay after the show and meets everyone!

I was SO excited to have this event planned for my Valentines weekend with my husband and it was probably the most boring two hours we have ever wasted at an event. If it had been a movie we would have probably walked out. The show was poorly executed. There was no hype or even real energy created from it. The people called on stage were like muppets, they pretty much didnt do anything....so glad I didnt get picked! I actually apolgised to my husband mid event for this show!!! Lesson learned....I think you would have to be completely star struck by this man in order to appreciate it, we arent, but love the food network and have seen the shows he is in. I didnt even bother waiting in the lobby to get my autograph I was that disgusted. Oh well.....

Okay, we bought tickets before reading the other reviews here and we should have. Our mistake. We went to the show last night and it wasn't as bad as some of the worst reviews, but it definitely was not very good. Chef Irvine is very amusing to watch but the show is amateurish in execution. With a LIVE show, you expect to have mostly LIVE material presented to you, right? Instead, they show you long video clips of Chef Irvine instead of truly LIVE performance. Also, the video clips were very self-serving and too self-promotional. Yes, we wanted to see Robert Irvine (and we did), but it's his working as a chef that draws us. The LIVE segments of cooking were very simple and Irvine barely worked up a sweat doing them. Although they pulled up what seemed like a ton of volunteers on-stage, most of them did nothing worthwhile on stage and kind of just filled up space like stage props. This show could have been great as Chef Irvine is fun to watch....while he is cooking! Hope they turn the volume down, get more on-stage cameras, and take out a lot of the on-stage preachiness. Until then, save your money and just watch his shows on TV.

I was lucky enough to see his show in Louisville and he is amazing. The genuine care that Robert has for people and especially those that are veterans is truly touching. And the fact that he took the time to meet every single person with a smile and a picture despite having one of the worst days of his life really sets this amazing man apart from the rest The show itself was awesome for me because I really miss dinner impossible.

We had a great time at the Evansville show. If you can get in the pre show it makes it even better, you will get a chance to meet him before and after the show. The main show was a lot of fun you get to see him cook and think on his feet and interact with the audience. It is kind of like a live Cutthroat Kitchen. I was even more impressed to hear how much of the merchandise sales goes the benefit charity.

Warm, charming, engaging, funny, and an all-around fabulous human being are just a few of the words I would use to describe Chef Robert Irvine. We saw his show in Louisville, KY, in October 2014. He's been a long time hero of my significant other so I purchased the V.I.P. experience in order to get to see the more "intimate" cooking demonstration. It was as though the Chef had a premination that he was someone special to my significant other. We were seated on the opposite side of the room from where the chef entered and we were several rows back, but the chef locked eyes on my boyfriend and immediately spoke directly to him even coming right to our sides to engage us in conversation. After the tasting, everyone got the opportunity to have a photo taken with the chef and time to ask a question or two. Chef Irvine was more than personable, answering everyone's questions telling us that he would be honest and maybe we wouldn't like hearing the all of his answers! Next we went into the main venue for the show. Absolutely nothing about this show would disappoint. The chef and his crew carry on in a comical manner having the audience assist the chef in prepare dishes that from ingredients picked at random by audience selections. Think Dinner Impossible meets Chopped without the judges. During this particular show the chef repeatedly told us that it was a special night. At the very end of the evening, after doing an entire tasting and a show for several hundred people, the chef brought out his wife, Gail, introduced her to the audience, and announced that at 3 o'clock that afternoon, his father had passed away. He hadn't told anyone on his staff because he didn't want anyone's sympathy. He said he did the show in honor of his father. Then he told the audience to be a little kinder to one another. In dismissing the audience, he announced....I don't want sympathy from any of you, but I will be glad to meet you in the loby and sign autographs and pose for pictures until everyone gets one. I'll see you out front in a bit. The show ended about 9ish. We were in the back of the line. I think there may have been two, maybe three people behind us. We didn't get back to the chef until 11:30! That, ladies and gentlemen is an incredibly giving man! There is no way in this world I could have learned that my father had passed away and gone to work, let alone done the job that Robert Irvine did. You see his show Restaurant Impossible and you think it's just a job. NO it's who he is!!! He has a charitable foundation for helping service men and women. 100% of the proceeds from the sales of souvineers from his Live performances go to that charity. He even pays for his charity's office space out of his private funds. The charity gets 100% of all donations!!! The man's heart is made of GOLD!!!!! We enjoyed the show so much we have tickets to see him again in Lima, Ohio. I hope he will bring the tour to Cincinnati or Dayton so we can see him closer to home too.

my husband and I had no idea what to expect when we bought our tickets for Robert Irvine Live. We were pleasantly surprised. The show was awesome! The audience was engaged throughout. Robert was on stage and in the audience. I won't give away the details as its great going in not knowing exactly what to expect, but expect to have fun! Robert also gave everyone the chance to meet him and have photos taken after the show. Plan to go again if he comes back to my area.

This show wasn't at all what I expected. Yes there was cooking, but I was pleasantly surprised at how inspirational it was & how different Robert seems in person versus on tv. He even stayed after and signed autographs and brought a professional photographer to take pictures with every fan who wanted one for free. Who does that?

Lets get something straight right now, this is not a boring cooking demo that you pay money to see Robert cook and talk about his shows. If you want that, watch his shows and watch him demo something on youtube. This is an interactive experience with a chance to participate on stage, learn something, have some fun, and get a chance to meet one of the nicest people alive. If you read the other reviews, they talk about Chad which is the host of the challenges, an MC, and the challenges. Everything was put together by Robert and his crew. Everything is also paid for by Robert and his crew. All proceeds from the show go to benefit the Gary Sinise Foundation that gives all proceeds and work to Wounded Warriors. You will also read a review saying the show didn't start on time. OH WAAAAH!! Who cares? Show times are a goal to aim for, but they hardly ever happen on time, get over it. Robert went around several times through the audience to talk to people or to have a laugh. He tried to make it as interactive as possible. He also got a group of random people to sing to the Veterans in the crowd. He tried to make it understood that regardless of your views, you should thank a Veteran. Also, nothing in the show is scripted. They try to make it a unique experience to each area. How do I know this? A member of the crew came through the autograph line to talk to folks about the show. He explained what it's like to do the show and to work with Robert and how nothing is scripted. This entire group puts on a wholesome and warm show and tries to accomodate the crowd. Robert did the show and then stayed for an extra 2 and a half hours for autographs, photos and to talk to people. And guess what, he had to drive to another show and start another Restaurant Impossible round the next morning. At most, he would get 3 hours of sleep in the car. The show was a lot of fun and was much more than a cooking demo that you could get at a community college. Did they have a technical difficulty or 2? Yep, but I believe Metallica has had several over the years, and they're one of the biggest stage performances of all time. Did Robert try to make his show something more than who he is and what he believes? Nope. If you want something raunchy or you want a Food Network show, go somewhere else. Go to the show if you get a chance, have some fun, and expect fun surprises. The reviews bashing this show are not an audience feeling, I assure you. Everyone we could see had fun and were thankful for the experience.

The premise of the show - Live cooking, Dinner Impossible type challenges, audience participation was all very intruiging to us. Robert Irvine was charming and funny, it was the production itself that was horrible. Three screens overhead so that the roving camera man could capture the action. He somehow kept forgetting it was his JOB to capture the action. We had views of the MC's back, the floor, Chef Robert's feet - it was ridiculous! The MC only focused on audience members that were in the first couple rows, so if you were any farther back, you had zero chance of becoming involved or being picked for anything. "Chad", the robotic screen hog who was handing out 'challenges' was simply annoying and on the big screens far too much of the time, which again, kept you from seeing ANY action that was going on on-stage. Poor seating with everyone all on one level. All short people like me suffered from an inability to really see much. Waste of money. I actually dozed off during one of the last challenges. Too bad, because we thought it was a fun idea, whose poor execution killed it.

From what I can tell, Chef Robert does these shows after he finishes shooting his Food Network show in the area as he had just finished 2 tapings nearby. Show started late, which was ironic given that all he does on his show is play taskmaster. Our show was run by an on screen computer named Chad that laid out challenges and tasks to Chef Robert. Problem is, they were stupid. In one for instance he had 15 minutes to prepare a dish but only after escaping a straight jacket. In another, he brought somebody up on stage and had to cook with him handcuffed front to back (almost like the old Whose Line Is It Anyway bit). The camera work was also poor, people in the audience at one point had to yell for the camera people to shoot what was being cooked so we could actually see what was going on. All in all, while interesting, I would have rather seen some pure cooking with audience interaction then some of the stupidity I saw. The other people in my party rather enjoyed themselves though. On the flip side, the Event Center at Four Winds is beautiful. Great place to see a show. Staff is very polite. Bar service is great, they don't nickle and dime you to death.

We had an absolutely terrific time at Robert Irvine Live! Many people may know Chef Robert from Dinner: Impossible and Restaurant: Impossible. This show is an amalgam of the Dinner: Impossible concept along with audience participation and the creation of some incredible cuisine. If you're a fan of Mr. Irvine's, you're going to thoroughly enjoy this show!

I wasn't sure what the show was going to be about....maybe cooking and talking about his experiences with "Restaurant Impossible". Anyway, the show started really loud. I wasn't expecting a 2nd rate off the strip Vegas show. Why did he need an MC? Couldn't he cook and talk? And again, why so loud. The overhead screen that was placed to show what was going on in the pans was not HD....everything looked faded and grey. Show was way too loud and way too rude. Waste of time.