BuzzFeed’s hit show “Worth It” is back for Season Three! To celebrate, BuzzFeed is launching ‘Worth It Week,’ a three-week event for fans to get the full “Worth It” experience at restaurants across the country.
From September 14 through October 8, fans are invited to visit restaurants featured on the show and try Worth It dishes. More than 40 restaurants at 140 locations all across the U.S. will have exclusive ‘Worth It Week’ menus with items featured on the show as well as other restaurant favorites. Fans will also be able to suggest restaurants for future episodes.
Visit www.worthitweek.com to find ‘Worth It Week’ restaurants and get a taste of the Worth It experience at participating locations near you.
While at ‘Worth It Week’ restaurants, take a photo of your featured dish and post it on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter tagging the location of the restaurant and using the hashtag #WorthItWeek.
Email WorthIt@BuzzFeed.com with restaurant and menu item suggestions for consideration of future Worth It episodes!
Worth It is BuzzFeed‘s most popular original series, with more than 280 million views on YouTube and nearly two billion minutes of watch time across its run. Hosts Steven Lim and Andrew Illnyckyj, and their cameraman Adam Bianchi travel across the globe trying some of the world’s favorite dishes at three different price points to figure out which is most “Worth It.”
We talked to hosts Steven Lim, Andrew Ilnyckyj, and their cameraman Adam Bianchi at their premiere party, check out our interview after the jump.
The Knockturnal: Tell us what people can expect from the new season going forward.
Steven Lim: We travel internationally. We go to Australia. We do Japan and this is like our dream season because we’ve been talking about doing a fried chicken episode since season one. We’ve been talking about going to Japan since season one. This is also the season where we take a lot of comments and we turn them into videos. Everybody always wants a ramen video and we finally got around to doing a ramen episode where we try a very expensive ramen in Japan. Yeah, it’s going to be great. It’s really exciting especially for us I think. This is like the one where we, it’s for us I think and also for you know half for us half for the audience.
The Knockturnal: Adam, what was the highlight for you for this season?
Adam Bianchi: Eating fried chicken. Fried chicken’s great.
The Knockturnal: And tell me about what it’s like to have your own show?
Andrew Ilnyckyj: Yeah, I make it with a ton of people who are super helpful in making it. It’s interesting because we have been making videos at Buzzfeed for a long time and this is just how we’ve always made videos. You know, video to video, seeing what works, seeing what our audience is interested in and to suddenly have a show come out of it, like we didn’t need to change anything when it became a show. It’s kind of like just doing the same work we’ve always done, but striking a chord with our audience that is resonating with so many people and has attracted enough attention for it to be a show. Yeah. Not have a show. Yeah.
The Knockturnal: How excited are you that the show is going national?
Steven Lim: Oh yeah. I mean, I think that’s the one thing that has always hard for me when I read comics that are like, I can’t go to these restaurants because you guys are in LA. That’s why I’m excited, because I’m from Ohio personally, and so I would You Tube videos and I would never be able to engage, so finally it’s an opportunity for our audience to like participate in a real cohesive way. For food videos, you still have to go eat the food to experience it. Like you can’t just watch somebody eat. I’m excited for that.
