Hey, Upsell Crew. On today's episode of the show, I'm going to be having a conversation with the one and only Ken Friedman.

Helen, do you have any thoughts on Ken Friedman or his restaurants?

I really like them. Yeah.

Ken Friedman is the New York fixture who brought the city

restaurants like the spotted pig and the

Breslin and a whole bunch of places that really sort of helped the shape of

New York restaurants in the modern era and he's been bringing his restauranting vision to other cities lately

including LA where he and Greg sat down in the eater-upsel LA satellite

studio for a conversation that I think is going to knock your socks off.

I hope so.

But Helen, before we jump into my chat with Ken Friedman, there's actually something

I wanted to chat with you about.

Oh my God, I feel so special.

Greg, what can I do for you?

Okay, well, let me just preface this by saying that I feel like everyone who works in the

restaurant industry or writes about restaurants and that stuff, at some point

in time thinks, oh yeah, I know the kind of restaurant I would open or like, what if I did open

a restaurant?

It would be like this.

And so on that note, have you ever thought about opening a restaurant,

even like in some weird sort of disassociated fantasy,

and what would that restaurant be?

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