Chef's Table: Talks

This week, Michelin-started restaurateur Simon Kim (COTE,
Bar Chimera, COQODAQ) joins David on the podcast for the first-ever
podcast episode recorded in a guest’s restaurant. David and Simon sit
down at a booth in Bar Chimera in NYC to talk about classic Korean BBQ
drinking games, the anatomy of a soju bomb, the investing risk of
opening an innovative steakhouse in New York, what kitchen weapon Simon
would bring to a street fight, and so much more.

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This week, David sits down with friend and director Max Winkler (Love Story) to talk about the time they got turned down from Nozawa (and why it made them love it even more), his father Henry Winkler's favorite foods, what Max eats on film sets, the iconic LA restaurants David and Max went to together in college, and so much more. 

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David is joined this week by Hooked owner and LA’s resident coffee expert,
Christopher “nicely” Abel Alameda! David and Nicely talk about how to make an incredible pourover, Haagen Daaz coffee ice cream, the idea of a Lego coffee shop, why every coffee bean is precious, and so much more. 

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Gilberto Cetina (Holbox) joins David in the kitchen this week!! Gilberto
talks about the pressure of taking on his family's beloved restaurant
Chichen Itza, how spearfishing as a teen made him fall in love with
seafood, being a Michelin-starred seafood chef when his wife and
daughter don't like fish, the catering horror story that made him almost
ruin a wedding, and so much more.

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Byron Puck (President of Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining) joins David on the show this week! David and Byron talk about the moment he first realized his father Wolfgang Puck's level of fame on a boy scout camping trip, working in Spago's dish pit at age 12, family latke lessons, the time an egg-white cocktail exploded on a customer, why tuna cones will never leave the menu, what it means to be known as "the quintessential Hollywood restaurant", and so much more. 

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