Sean Feeney

In 2003, I started in finance.

2009, I was married and moved into an apartment in the West Village in a townhouse where there was three apartments in that building.

My wife and I lived on the top floor and right below us

a chef moved in and I was a massive food fanatic.

I think the best I was ever at in finance was at restaurants every single night.

And I had just read an article about

Chef Missy Robbins moving back from Chicago to New York to take over a restaurant called the Voce.

And when I saw her the first time in our building, I was like, oh my God, you're Missy Robbins.

Aren't you opening a Voce in a couple of weeks?

And she said, yes.

And it's like, wow, like I'm going to come all the time.

And sure enough, I did.

So for...

The next three years, I would go a lot with my finance colleagues, my parents when they would come in from Jersey, my wife, our friends.

And I would flex, but also be embarrassed to be a bit of a fanboy of hers.

And she would come out to our table and do the whole spiel, shaving truffles on the pasta.

And that's all we really were.

We were just neighbors at that point.

And she probably thought I was just a finance dork.

with my trader vest on, but she was really nice and I liked her, but we were always ships like passing in the wind.