Ari Kolender is a 20-year veteran of some of the top seafood restaurants in America, and opened his first restaurant, Found Oyster, in Los Angeles in 2019. Found Oyster is a Los Angeles sensation. Casual and precise, the cooking hones Ari’s deep passion for serving some of the finest seafood available, paired with interesting wines and service that is at the same time casual and finely pointed. He also operatesQueen’s Raw Bar & Grill and joins the show to talk about the Top Five restaurants that inspired his career.
The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers – not of Resy—and do not constitute professional advice.
Matt Rodbard is the editor in chief of TASTE and the author of Koreaworld: A Cookbook, Koreatown: A Cookbook, a New York Times Bestseller, and Food IQ, a Publishers Weekly Bestseller and winner of a 2023 IACP Cookbook Award (Food Issues & Matters)