How Simon Kim Built New York’s Most Successful New Steakhouse

Eater's Digest

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News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Simon Kim has been a fighter all his life. From schoolyard fights in Seoul, South Korea to bar brawls in Long Island, his scrappiness was borne of a restlessness that plagued him until he found his calling: hospitality (ironically). After working his way up from a front desk agent at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to the manager of a lavish restaurant there, Kim made a name for himself as the guy the whales, or uber high-stakes gamblers, wanted to see. Kim joined us in studio to trace his path from 7th grade earth science to opening two Michelin starred restaurants in just over a year, highlighting the hospitality lessons he's learned along the way. Then, we get into the biggest food stories of the week, from pop-up woes to boozy advent calendars, kids on iPads in restaurants and more. We've also got a survey out that'll help us make the Digest better and better. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps us out! Take it here. Stories: • Beer for Christmas • Please Don't Let Your 4 y.o. Lose in Restaurants • Rome Restaurant Scams Tourists Out of Hundreds Featuring: Simon Kim (@simonkimnyc) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making.
0:13.1	Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.4	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.1	They don't last forever.
0:18.8	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.1	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.2	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore.
0:28.0	I'm Joe Adallion. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney
0:32.1	dilemma from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.6	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen
0:37.6	to hear new episodes every Wednesday. From the newsroom at Eder, I'm Amanda Clute.
0:45.0	And I'm Daniel Janine.
0:48.0	And this is Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.
0:52.0	With a little help from the biggest... about all things food and dining.
0:56.6	With a little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the journalists here at Eater, we try to understand what is happening right now in kitchens, restaurants, and
1:00.2	dining rooms around the world.
1:01.6	Today on the show, Daniel had Simon Kim in the studio.
1:05.0	Yeah, Simon Kim is a very prominent New York restaurant tour and we talked about how all of these
1:09.4	crazy tricks he learned in Las Vegas dealing with high rollers he is now applying to
1:14.7	his new york city restaurant.
1:17.4	Awesome.
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