Well, completed chapter 1 and everything works, it was a few things that needed to be explained though. First site.css needed to be updated, the phone numbers needed to be checked for nulls, the
[ ModelState.AddRuleViolations(dinner.GetRuleViolati ons()); ]

had to be named correctly.

The address field had to include a real address for the map to display correctly, found this out using debug.

A great staring point for the rest of the book, If you want to learn MVC this is a great starting point.

Don't just copy the downloaded code but try to follow along. Once done you'll get a great feeling an knowledge of what MVC can do.