Mario Carbone
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319 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Mario Carbone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't have a lot of wants. It's amazing. I mean, like, things are fucking amazing. I mean, I've far exceeded my own expectations. Thank you, sir. He's got the orange. He's got the orange handkerchief for Frank. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
like royalty or like a like a shake what's the weirdest request we had we had you know obama when he was still sitting president come in which was as new york new york yeah to have him as the sitting president eat at the restaurant and the protocol that goes around that is bananas okay what's the protocol Well, I was the only I was one of the only people that knew about it.
So I was pretty convinced that they were watching my phone. So I didn't tell anybody because it was an unannounced. So that night it was unannounced. So no one knew that he was supposed to be there. So at that point, Secret Service deems anyone that's in the restaurant to be safe because they don't know what's happening. So they don't they don't they don't need to check that. Right. Interesting.
So the second that he shows up, then they go full... They shut down all communication. All phones stopped working. They set up a metal detector outside. Someone goes to every exit downstairs, throughout. There's someone in the kitchen with me. Um... And immediately, the second he walks in, then things sort of shut down. But it was amazing. He walked in, the place went absolutely bananas.
And so to have him there as the sitting president of the United States, and he's been back since, but to have him there that night was pretty unbelievable. Does he order... Or does he say, give me your best hits? Someone at the table ordered for everybody, and he ordered his drink, which was a dirty gin martini. So the only thing he ordered was his cocktail, but everything else just came out.
So does he speak on any of the dishes? I went to the table. I said hi to him. He's unreasonably cool for President of the United States. He got up at the end of the night. He kind of addressed everybody in the crowd, which was amazing. Where do you seat him in the restaurant? We have one table in the back that's like... To the left. Yeah, tucked all the way up so that the most...
Yeah, that's a great question. There was a person in the kitchen that... They have a whole kit with them, a giant briefcase. And all that they asked of me that night was to let them know when we were preparing his food. And he got real close to the preparation of it. But I don't remember them tasting it ahead of time. I thought they were going to. That briefcase is doing something.
There's a whole kit of something in that briefcase that never came out.
Well, we're very close now still, which is great, with Danielle and Jean-Georges. Danielle, sorry. You know, it's important for Rich and I that we're close with that generation because they were our heroes. And they're still operating at a really high level, which is amazing. Rich was... even closer to Danielle because he had worked there for far more years than I had.
So that relationship's really important to him, but it's important to me as well. He definitely gives us our flowers, as does JG, Jean-Georges, and I think that that...
Relationship means the world to us because those coming up, reading the review every Wednesday in the New York Times as kids to see who got reviewed and to see their names and to eventually work with them and now to be their kind of colleagues and peers.
is everything have you ever had a personal moment with him where he's like hey i'm really proud of you or even mario any of these people yeah i mean i've had i've had i've had a lot of moments of mario spent a lot of years in mario um i've had moments with you know danielle telling him that story about like the resume and having that moment with him where i get to tell him that story what did he say
He doesn't remember it, but he loves that that happened. He loves that we're alumni. That means a lot to him. So to see the pride that we came from his kitchen, that we made it, is the greatest possible reward for us. That goes back to that. we made it in New York and that was the biggest thing we could have ever imagined. Yeah. I never thought about a restaurant in Hong Kong.
I just wanted to be, I wanted to be big here. Yeah.
We talk about it from time to time for sure. I mean, there's definitely moments, especially cause you're, you're, you're creating something. So you're sensitive to it. So yeah, When we're criticizing each other for the betterment of whatever that thing is, you can't help but get emotional about it. I made that, so I'm sensitive to it. That still happens today.
I think the confidence that we have in that whole the band's not going to break up thing is that... Especially with Rich, I've known him my whole life, right? I've known him since I was a kid, since we're teenagers. So we know that if we're fighting about something or we're not agreeing, we're butting heads about something, that it's just like when you're doing that with your actual brother.
You built a friendship before.
the business you're not gonna break up with your brother right like you're gonna fight with him you're gonna call him a dick and something's gonna happen and then tomorrow's gonna be tomorrow because that's your brother and he's gonna be there and like you're not gonna break up with your sibling so i think that that's what we have and there's never it's never gonna get so blown out of proportion that this whole thing is gonna be a house of cards
The confrontation's good.
If you guys just agree with each other all the time, then, like, what... What are we doing here? It's not going to break us. The whole point is that we're going to make each other better. Some of our parts are going to be greater than us as an individual. Okay, before we get out of here, why is New York City the greatest city in the world?
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