“It’s not fun for me to do the same thing every day and touch the same tables every day. I will, but I think that I have a bigger purpose.” — Nyesha Arrington
, a Santa Monica bistro. Now, Arrington is embracing the possibility of a life split between the kitchen and the screen. And because what that looks like isn’t exactly clear yet, for the foreseeable future, she’s on the move, traveling and giggingWe caught up with Arrington in Hong Kong, where she was in town to do a three-night pop-up at Test Kitchen, a local space that hosts regular dinners with chefs from around the world.
“I left [the Wilshire] and took two years off. I was supposed to just take the summer off and then find another chef job. And I just kept getting inquiries for dinner parties and things like that. It sustained an entrepreneurial-style life for about two years: I got to go to farms and live my life, and not grind it out so hard. It was scary and cool at the same time. [It was] liberating.
“In all honesty and transparency, I was so wide-eyed, young, and stupid. I didn’t have a lawyer look at my stuff. I just was like, ‘I’m just going to kill it, and we can revisit all this [legal] stuff later.’ I keep learning life lessons. I’m resilient, I guess. It’s hard. I’m a firm believer in failing upwards.”“In hindsight, we should’ve had a better plan. That was too quick, and not the location for me. Rent was $20k a month. I’m not afraid to say: I should have spoken up.
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