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Artist claims celeb chef Samuelsson refusing to pay $10K for artwork
A Brooklyn artist claims that celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson kept a piece of artwork he made of the two of them and is refusing to pay him $10,000 for the...
Marcus Samuelsson accused of discriminating against black bartenders
A former black employee is suing Ethiopia-born celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson and one of his restaurants, claiming Samuelsson doesn’t like black bartenders, according to a new Manhattan federal lawsuit. In...
Red Rooster chef tabs Brooklyn complex for new restaurant
Super chef Marcus Samuelsson conquered Harlem’s dining scene with his celebrated Red Rooster. Now he’s taking his game-changing restaurant show to Brooklyn for the first time. His Marcus Samuelsson Group...
What celeb chef Marcus Samuelsson can't live without
Dapper chef Marcus Samuelsson is a man of taste, both gustatory and sartorial. The 46-year-old, who has 32 restaurants from New York to Stockholm, just opened two hot spots at...
How to spend the perfect MLK weekend in Harlem
“I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts,” says Jerry Pinkney. After creating dozens of children’s...
Where Tommy Hilfiger partied all night with Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry
Tommy Hilfiger is on a roll . . . again. After a mid-’00s slump brought on, in part, by overexposure, the designer has reinvigorated his label with an unconventional strategy — fewer...
Harlem's hip new chicken joint cooks the birds of the world
Marcus Samuelsson’s new restaurant is devoted to roasted chicken, but the celebrity chef isn’t serving up the simply seasoned cluckers that have become de rigueur at bistros across the city....
8 restaurants worth visiting in Harlem's hot culinary scene
Give tourist-trampled downtown a rest this holiday weekend and check out Lenox Avenue — central Harlem’s historic main drag, which is morphing, in fits and starts, into uptown’s most enjoyable...
Broker: Celeb chef Marcus Samuelsson stiffed me on cut for $3M sale
A celebrity chef who counts President Obama as one of his biggest fans has been slapped with a lawsuit for allegedly stiffing a broker on his commission for a $3...