Sean Feeney

But how do we find that right balance?

And I've just thought about as we grow even that pasta brand, what more can we offer to our community of guests in a thoughtful way that everybody will always say, oh...

That makes sense.

And I think just playing the long game has always helped with this too, knowing the things that we've wanted to do.

We've written all these things down in 2014, these little things that we've wanted to do, open a few restaurants, do a pasta company, someday hopefully have a place where we can curate an entire experience where we pick you up at your home and bring you back when you're done with us after a few days.

And we've set those roadmaps, but in between, how do we build that out in a thoughtful way that's authentic in us so that people are chasing the brand versus the brand chasing the guests?

That's definitely something I never thought I would say out loud before, but it is something that we think about every single day and we're grateful for.

I'm grateful for our friendship.

I'll never forget getting a call from a rapper.

His name's Action Bronson.

Oh, come on.

The ultimate food rapper.

Bam, bam.

He lives across the street from Lilia.

And six months after we opened Lilia, he became a huge supporter and I didn't know him at all.

I'll never forget the first night I walked into Lillian, he was there.

It was January 23rd, 2016.

It was 14 degrees outside and Action was at the bar by himself in a New York Knicks jersey, Patrick Ewing shorts and flip-flops.

And I walked by him.

I was coming from Anchorage.