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Aaron Sanchez Can’t Pay The Bills?
Published on: July 28, 2010 – 11:38 am by Jillian Madison 
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Aaron Sanchez has a restaurant in NYC called Paladar. When you visit the website, you’re met with a curious little message:
Yikes. Good luck with that, Aaron. Let us know if you’d like us to start up a fund.
(Thanks for the tip, Cathy!)
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If i were him, id pay the hosting fees and hire a real web designer, looks like whoever did it, built it with microsoft word cerca 1995
I agree, the website design looks horrible. Also sides are $6!! I love black beans and rice and would never pay six freakin dollars for that! I have never heard of Aaron until I saw en episode of Chopped.If he cant even afford to keep the website up I dont see how he can afford to run that restaurant.
I was thinking same thing. it looks really bad lol
Screw saving the website, I say we start a fund to buy a pair of hedge clippers so he can tame his demented topiary eyebrows.
Now that was funny.
Maybe one his “swarms of fans” can lend him a weedwhacker for the job.
LOL
Something seems very fishy about this and I wonder if his website hasn’t been hacked.
correction, expires november 13 of this year, so it might be true..
Domain Name: PALADARRESTAURANT.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS25.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS26.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 27-apr-2010
Creation Date: 13-nov-2000
Expiration Date: 13-nov-2010
That’s the expiration of the domain name that he needs to renew as well. He’s more likely behind on paying for the bandwidth of the site, which you usually pay monthly.
haha Carlos, I was thinking the same thing. What a horrible design
“Best of Gay New York 2002″?
http://www.paladarrestaurant.com/press.php
What does that even mean?
I think he has just been CHOPPED!!!!!!!
So what.
Aaron and his bumchum Chris Cosentino need to just vanish…forever.
And learn to run like men.
They’re MEN? Coulda fooled me! :-Þ
“bumchum” I am so going to steal that for future use. I’ll pay virtual royalties :)
Dude…. Aaron is definitely a joke, but Chris is both an amazing person and an amazing chef – not to mention a strong voice for expanding the American culinary palate.
I agree Cosentino is a great chef, so why the fuck is doing all this stupid reality show nonsense and making himself look like a wanker ?
And you’re right.Sanchez is useless pepperbelly.
I love how Aaron always says, “Oh, I’m great with spicy! I’m Latino! I can do spicy!” and then he cries like a little girl while Chris just digs in and gets it done. No fanfare. No bragging. I’ve only seen Chris on the Chef vs. City thing, but he seems to know his way around the culinary world. I’m amazed at the stuff he knows, like the best way to make sausage, or the easiest way to find clams. Like he’s been educated about these things or something.
Maybe they need to start teaming him up with Alton.
Maybe Aaron just needs to hire a better bookkeeper, heh?
Whatever, that’s pretty publicly embarrassing.
Better hawk some more queso fresco… andelay…
Am I the only one who thought Aaron had on a straitjacket in that pic?
I think you are missing the bigger point… the site sucks. It says the restaurant was founded in 2000… and I think the site remains untouched since then.
That’s really sad. Plus, that site looks like something I created in my Desktop Publishing class in 1993.
Looks like it got hacked…the email address is fishy, and obviously not from GoDaddy. :/
Too bad the notice doesn’t cover the whole page; it’s hideous.
Who the hell would hack that restaurant page? I’m not buying it. The domain is registered at GoDaddy, but it makes no mention of who the web host is. The web host is separate, and they have access to all of your files and could easily have inserted that image if payment had not been received.
Scammers? Or it could be broke douchebags with caterpillar eyebrows not paying their hosting fees. Guess we’ll find out on Aug. 31, 2010. Someone should make a countdown clock.
And who would go through the trouble of hacking his website just to put up a little box that says “hey, you didn’t pay your bills?” If it were really hacked, it’d be a collage of porn and shock sites (and pornographic shock sites) with Rick Astley embedded on loop in the background.
Occam’s Razor my friends… Occam’s Razor…
A quick google search of that email address shows nothing but the Paladar site. I suspect it was hacked as a scam to try to get credit card information.
No, it wasn’t hacked. The email address is not fishy, since if you look at the WHOIS for the domain, the very same contact email appears right there. The domain is registered at GoDaddy, and whoever the “web host” is – and I use that term lightly – has also hosted it at GoDaddy. I would guess this is a “web designer” collecting fees for “hosting” the site when all they did was set it up at GoDaddy. Pretty craptacular thing to do, in my opinion, but then again, I AM a web host and we run our own servers. Deadbeats get suspended if they don’t pay attention to the various notices we send them. Nothing get attention like a little suspension.
Maybe he has bigger fish to fry. *shrug*
Unable to pay bills?
Why am I suddenly reminded of every shit hole on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares that can’t seem to get their shit together?
You know bugs me about Aaron Sanchez? How he pronounces his name all “hispanicky”, but isn’t Aaron a traditional Jewish name? I’ve never heard any other hispanic Aaron’s refer to themselves in that manner. Between him, Giada, and that other Latina chef, it’s gonna make me start to change the pronunciation of my name to Myrt-Tell.
Maybe he can auction off his accent mark to raise money and go back to being plain old Aaron.
Many names come from one culture and are adopted in another. Aaron is a common Spanish name. Accenting the o is how it’s pronounced as a Spanish name. Benjamin is another name from the Judeo-Christian Bible that is pronounced, as a Spanish name, ben-ha-MIN.
P.S. Although I’ll admit he rolls his ‘r’s too much (like all ‘r’s are ‘rr’s) and over-pronounces other Spanish words.
He was born and raised here, but ups his ethnicity for effect. Male version of Giada Titslinger.
When I lived in California, I knew lots of people of Mexican descent who had old testament-y names.
That’s “Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrron,” people.
You know bugs me about latin men named Jesus? How they pronounce the name all “hispanicky”, but isn’t Jesus a traditional Greek name? Because we all know that words never ever ever change their pronunciation when they cross cultures. Ever. Not once. In the history of civilisation.
Hispanicky! I love it. I know Hispanic people who just can’t ever pronounce any word without a huge Spanish accent. Even in New York they go out of their way to call it “Nueva York.” Like we would ever call Puerto Rico “Port of Rico” or “Puerto of Riches”? Ridiculous. What really pisses me off honestly is the way hispanics just overdo the whole accent thing, but will IGNORE other languages accents. I know a guy who is hispanic and pronounces everything he can with a huge Spanish accent, but he can’t pronounce my husband’s name properly at all (because it’s FRENCH, OMG) even though he’s heard me say it a zillion times. It comes over as just hostile.
Never saw AarrrrrrrrrrrOHN anywhere before Chopped, and honestly he’s intensely annoying and should go back under that rock he crawled out from.
Do they really go out of their way to call it Nueva york or is nueva york just the name of the place in spanish? Maybe Sandra Lee needs to come up with an Arizona cake for the people in this thread.
It seems to be fixed now, the message is gone.
Once again, the power and influence of FNH is revealed!
Muwahahahahahaaa! ;)
Does the picture make him look like he’s got a big, oddly shaped, head? In the shot, he kind of reminds me of Exeter from the classic Sci-Fi movie, “This Island Earth”.
Ha! He totally looks like Exeter. He doesn’t need a website for his restaurant, just an interocitor.
Speaking of the site, as of right now it is down.
The picture of him is gone too. LOL. Love this site.
wow wierd!
Looks like that Casique queso fresco commercial dinero hasnt made it to his bank account yet
AY DIOS MIO!!!!!!!!
Guess whoever it was was serious – the webpage isn’t even up anymore!
“This site has been removed.
To get in touch with the web host, email contactmeviainternet(at)gmail(dot)com”
Someone get this guy a new graphic designer!
and now the website is totally gone…curiouser and curiouser.
Wayback Machine shows that the site never looked good.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.paladarrestaurant.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20060402221417/http://paladarrestaurant.com/
Yuck.
“This site has been removed.
To get in touch with the web host, email contactmeviainternet(at)gmail(dot)com”
HAHA!
Oh my god, it’s been removed. XD