Welcome back. I’m Chris Crowley. Yesterday, I got lunch with Los Angeles-based restaurant reporter, Meghan McCarron. I took her to the midtown location of Çka Ka Qëllue, the Dua Lipa-approved Albanian restaurant. We did not see Dua, but we did get the tavë kosi, a dish I first tried at a restaurant in the Bronx, Prizreni Grill.
In this letter: Blackbird denies rumors that a perk giving away free cash to restaurant staff is going away. A one-time Diner line cook is now running New York’s newly-created Office of Street Vendor Services. And how much would you pay to get The Corner Store on your reservation platform?
The exterior of The Corner Store in SoHo, New York. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky via Getty Images for Marie Claire & Who What Wear.)
How much can you make as a sheikh’s private chef? I’m hearing $350,000, which sounds like a sick salary to cook for someone who is only in town one month a year.
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