Don’t Call Teen Chef Flynn McGarry a Teen Chef (Oops)

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Flynn McGarry is still a teen chef, but three years after he came onto the scene as a 15-year-old fine dining wunderkind, he is no longer, technically, a kid. McGarry has spent time in some of the world’s most renowned kitchens, including Geranium in Copenhagen, Alinea in Chicago, Eleven Madison Park in New York, and at the Modernist Cuisine lab in Seattle. More recently, the teen chef (who expects that label to stick long after his teens) has hosted his tasting menu pop-up, Eureka, in Los Angeles and New York City, with plans to take it abroad. Three months into his eight-seat tasting counter in New York, McGarry joined hosts Helen and Greg in the Eater Upsell studio to discuss the particular weirdness of high-end counter service, why he’s so done with pop-ups, and why he’s so not done with The Bachelor. Get the full transcript for this episode (and all Upsell ep’s) at eater.com/upsell and check us out on social! Flynn: instagram.com/diningwithflynn Helen: twitter.com/hels Greg: twitter.com/gregmorabito Eater: twitter.com/eater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey podcast friends, Helen here. Greg and I are sitting here quivering with
0:08.2	excitement about today's episode of the Eater Upsell. Who are we talking
0:11.6	with Greg? Today we're talking to Flynn McGarry, aka the teen chef.
0:15.5	Because he's a teenager and he's a chef.
0:17.8	And a chef.
0:18.8	Flynn has gotten a lot of media love and also a lot of media hate over the last couple of years simply
0:25.3	because he is a teenager who is running restaurants. So it's going to be pretty
0:31.4	cool to sit down and talk with him about what that's been like.
0:34.3	And as you might expect for someone who decided to open his own tasting menu pop up at the age of 16,
0:40.8	he's pretty articulate.
0:42.1	This is not your average
0:43.2	Lul speak texting conversation with a stereotypical teenager.
0:46.4	Yeah I'm really glad we got a chance to chat with him. But first Helen there's
0:49.7	something I wanted to chat with you about. I live in a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York that is like moderately cool. It's on the
0:57.7	edge of cool and there are lots of restaurants and wherever there are lots of
1:02.1	restaurants some will be great and some will be mediocre. And wherever there are lots of restaurants,
1:02.8	some will be great and some will be mediocre.
1:05.2	And there was this restaurant that I sort of liked.
1:08.6	I always wanted to like it more than I actually did.
1:11.5	There was a really good kind of place
1:13.2	to take your parents if they were in town
1:15.6	and you had to bring them out to brunch
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