Flynn McGarry’s biography is, for lack of a better word, absurd. At 11, the budding chef launched a pop-up supper club from his family’s home, in Los Angeles. By 16, he was apprenticing at Michelin-starred restaurants in Oslo and New York, and three years later, in 2018, he opened his first permanent restaurant, Gem, on New York’s Lower East Side. That same year, a documentary about this remarkable journey, Chef Flynn, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Now the 26-year-old is getting ready to debut his biggest project yet: Cove, a mainly vegetarian, California-inspired fine-dining restaurant opening in New York’s Hudson Square on October 7. “I have a very high stress tolerance,” he tells me about managing his busy life. “And I take a bath every day.”
