Flynn McGarry | |
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Born | November 25, 1998 |
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Cooking style | New American [1] |
Current restaurant(s)
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Website | www |
Flynn McGarry (born November 25, 1998) [2] is an American chef based in New York City. [2] He has been called the "Justin Bieber of food" [3] and is known for hosting dinner tasting restaurant Eureka in Los Angeles and New York City since he was 11. [2] [1] He has staged at Eleven Madison Park, Alinea, Next, [2] Geranium, [4] and Maaemo. [3] McGarry describes his cooking as modern American cuisine. [1] He is known for being a young restaurant owner in NYC, opening the successful restaurant Gem at age 19. [5]
McGarry is the son of Meg and Will McGarry. His maternal grandfather was comedian Larry Daniels. [2] [6]
McGarry grew interested in cooking after tiring of his parents' limited cooking repertoire and the takeout food they would frequently eat. [2] [3] He cooked through Thomas Keller 's The French Laundry Cookbook and learned cooking skills from YouTube videos and food blogs. [2] [7] His parents built a kitchen in his bedroom to help him practice and installed a vacuum sealer, induction burners, a binchōtan grill and an immersion circulator. [2] McGarry started home-schooling in the seventh grade so that he could have more time to practice cooking. [2] When he was 12, McGarry started the US$160-a-head Eureka dining club in Los Angeles. [2] [4]
At sixteen years old, McGarry finished his high school examinations and moved to New York City, [1] where he opened his own pop-up restaurant, Eureka NYC, in the West Village. [4] The only chef at Eureka NYC, McGarry cooks a 14-course tasting menu [8] [9] inspired in part by his international travels. [3]
As of 2014, McGarry was writing an autobiography. [2] McGarry cites Daniel Humm, René Redzepi and Thomas Keller as cooking inspirations. [10] [11]
In 2015, McGarry was named one of Time magazine 's thirty most influential teens. [12] In 2016, McGarry presented a dish for a pressure test in the eighth season of Masterchef Australia. [13]
In early 2018 McGarry opened his first permanent restaurant, Gem on the Lower East Side. [14] Gem serves a $200, 12-15 course menu to a dining room of 12 guests over a period of 2 hours, [15] In June 2019, Gem closed for 3 months so McGarry could travel and get more inspirations. [16] He traveled to Los Angeles, Barcelona, London, Paris and Copenhagen. [17]
In 2018, a documentary film about McGarry, entitled Chef Flynn, premiered at SXSW. [18]
In 2021, he took part as a guest in an episode of the tenth season on MasterChef Italia . [19]
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