Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. I'm so psyched to have my friend Sean Feeney, Missy Robbins here.

I got to know Sean over the last couple years and Missy right afterwards. They are the

partnership behind two the best restaurants in New York and I would say in the country.

Lillia and Missy. Missy's the chef and Sean is the business person in front of

house, but their story of how they came together, where they

were in their lives when this all started happening is inspiring and fascinating to me.

And also any excuse I get to spend time but them is great for me so welcome

to both you we're so happy to be here.

Missy I'm going to try to talk less than I usually do on the podcast because there's two of you but also because

you know I don't know that every people are that familiar with your story and even Missy in your bio leaves out sort of you know it says oh you went from

Avoche where you were a famous New York chef to sort of figure out your new restaurant

but I I really wanted you to talk about what really

was going on in those couple of years.

Which I know you've written about some,

but I would love to hear you talk about it because so many of us struggle with so many of the same things.

So in terms of figuring out who we are as we're trying to move forward.

So can you just talk about your journey to New York, to cook,

and I don't care if you talk for 10 minutes,

but just talk about how you got to that place,

and then we'll bring Sean in and how how you guys came together.

Yeah definitely I I at the point that I left Voche in 2013 I had been cooking for 20 years and I needed a break and I didn't there were a few

things going on I had this incredible 20-year career I had done all my training in New York for the most part. I had

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