Private chefs dish on what it’s like to feed NYC’s wealthiest — from Champagne panics to wasted sushi
NY Post
It was the $800 Uber Eats delivery.
Private chef Andrew Molen had just picked up a call from a regular client, who’d emerged in a panic from the wine cellar of his tony NYC home, hoping to pop up a particular bottle of Champagne when friends arrived — only to find none there.
“I called all the liquor stores I could and finally found one in New Jersey that had it,” the chef recalled. “And I got it delivered.”
Molen is more than a diamond-tier Door Dasher — he’s a classically trained chef who swapped restaurant life with the likes of Todd English for private cooking, often out in the Hamptons.
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