Being a chef, says Marc Forgione, is kind of like living in New York. “You either love it or hate it; it’s a tough city that forces you to earn the right to enjoy it, it sort of forces you to become tough.”
Forgione loves both—and has certainly done the work to enjoy them.
Born in Manhattan and raised in Long Island, Forgione worked his first kitchen job at 16 at his father Larry Forgione’s famed restaurant, An American Place. After college and working in New York and France, a 29-year-old Forgione opened his own place, Restaurant Marc Forgione, in downtown Manhattan in 2008….