The second season airs this fall, date to be determined.Alexis Karris shakes a cocktail at La Casa de tu Madre, which opened Oct.
None of the ex-convicts are guilty of murder, rape, or child abuse, she added.Īccording to the couple, 11 of the 12 contestants from Season 1 have achieved a better quality of life: seven remain working at restaurants, three have started families, and a few have taken up construction. He knows that if he keeps on doing drugs he's going to die," Zorich said. "He's a wonderful young man, and he realizes that this is his last chance. He's lived on his own since the age of 14, Zorich said, and had such a severe drug addiction that he was briefly pronounced dead in 2009 during a heroin overdose. "It has to mean a lot to you to get up at 6 o'clock and go home at 12, 12:30 every morning."
"He's trying to put his life together," Zorich said. He spends two hours commuting to and from his halfway house each day, and works up to 16-hour shifts in the kitchen hoping to earn a clean slate. Zorich manages the restaurant with Thuet as head chef, but the real stories belong to the staff.īrent, a reformed drug addict, has been clean for five months. Last month they set up shop at Delilah's (1789 Comox Street), temporarily renamed Delilah's Conviction. "He managed to get clean through a lot of support systems," she said. They're taking part in Conviction Kitchen Season 2, a follow-up to the Toronto-based TV series that documented a dozen ex-convicts trying to get straight in the service industry.Ĭo-creator Biana Zorich says the project was inspired by her husband, renowned Canadian chef Marc Thuet, and the 20 years he spent battling a severe drug addiction. A popular restaurant in Vancouver's West End is putting second chances on the menu for a group of 12 ex-convicts, who will be cooking food and serving meals for the next several weeks.
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