Welcome to the Atlantic interview. My guest is Mike Solomonoff. He's the greatest

restaurateur. Do you pronounce restaurateur? I think so. I think some people say

you're like restaurantier. Who says that? I don't know. Not in Philadelphia they don't.

You're an impresario of restaurants in Philadelphia. He's the James Beard Award winner which means you're the best chef in America

Yeah, I mean not really just own it that's what they say. Yeah.

The first time an Israeli has won?

First time an Israeli has won.

And I've won two Chef awards.

One was Best Chef Mid-Atlantic.

And one was an outstanding chef in America or whatever and that

wait I like that or whatever it was it was outstanding chef yeah you know the

big that's the big one that both of those days fell on

Israeli independence day actually which is awesome do you believe in God yeah yeah

you believe that God was behind that no No, but I love I love the

Bichert aspect of it. I love the the

Translate for our listeners. I think it's got that syncronistic.

It's a little hard to say like I think that when was it you remember when Bush got all this

flack for people saying that he he thought that God had like put him in that role right

and you're like if you believe in some sort of God, it's not that crazy of a thing to think, right?

Because you believe that a lot of the things happen that are out of your control that are meant to be.

I'm not saying that I believe in that, but just that idea that like, you know, if you believe in any sort of God or any sort of like order of anything, it's not so

for the right place at the right time. I think we've done this for three minutes and we're already down some weird rabbit hole man.

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