Bobby’s Burger Palace also has an 11th location, in College Park, Maryland. Flay opened the tenth and largest Bobby’s Burger Palace site at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover, Maryland, on June 7, 2012. On December 5, 2011, Flay opened the ninth location of Bobby’s Burger Palace in Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York. The sixth location of Bobby’s Burger Palace opened in Washington, D.C., at 2121 K Street in Northwest on August 16, 2011. His fifth location of the burger chain opened in Philadelphia’s University City on April 6, 2010. His fourth shop opened at the Mohegan Sun Casino in southeast Connecticut on July 1, 2009, which is also the location of his second Bar Americain, which opened on November 18, 2009. He then offered him the position of executive chef at Mesa Grill, which opened on January 15, 1991. Working from 1988 to 1990, Flay got the attention of restaurateur Jerome Kretchmer, who was looking for a southwestern-style chef. Waxman later introduced Flay to southwestern and Cajun cuisine, a connection that later defined his culinary career.Īfter taking a short break to work at the American Stock Exchange, Bobby returned to the kitchen as the executive chef at Miracle Grill in the East Village. He then got a job, working as a chef working for restaurateur Jonathan Waxman at Bud and Jams.

However, he quit after he realized that he was not ready to run a kitchen. After his graduation, Flay started working as a sous-chef, quickly learning the culinary arts, He was soon handed the executive chef’s position at the Brighton Grill on Third Avenue after the executive chef was fired. He then received a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984.

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