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On this week’s episode of To Dine For, host Kate Sullivan is joined by Stephen Starr, an American restaurateur and former entertainment promoter based in Philadelphia. He owns the STARR Restaurant Group, which operates over 30 restaurants.
Starr has restaurants in many different areas of the United States as well as overseas, including Alma de Cuba, Barclay Prime, Buddakan, Butcher and Singer, The Continental Mid-Town, The Dandelion, El Rey and more. Starr won the 2017 Outstanding Restaurateur Award from the James Beard Foundation as well as the Best New Restaurant by the James Beard Foundation for the restaurant Le Coucou.
Starr is known for creating complete environments with an artistic, almost cerebral approach. In 2017 the magazine Restaurant Hospitality placed Stephen Starr on their RH 25 Most Powerful Multiconcept Operators in the U.S.
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