Food & Drinks
Being a Private Chef in Greenwich Means Catering $100,000 Cannabis Parties
In the hedge fund capital of the world, there are few limits to what can be called “dinner.”
Illustration: Brindha Kumar
One morning, Alexander Marlon, a private chef in Greenwich, Connecticut, was given less than two hours to source the ingredients for, prepare and plate an elaborate barbecue for his client’s visiting executive board. He quickly called his friend at famed Brooklyn steakhouse Peter Luger for the freshest sausage, then worked with the housekeeper to artfully lay out heaps of other high-end meats and fish.
After the lunch, as the group headed off to spend the afternoon on a yacht, in lieu of a thank-you his client’s wife merely told him, “I did not think you could pull it off.”