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Before Flaweless: I spent twenty years running New York restaurants, twelve of them at BONDST. Thousands of nights of wa...
08/05/2026

Before Flaweless: I spent twenty years running New York restaurants, twelve of them at BONDST. Thousands of nights of watching what makes a room work — and what quietly kills it.

The Entertainer is those twenty years distilled into a craft anyone can learn. I’m writing it in public, one essay at a time, in the Journal.

Words, evenings, rooms. One idea: hosting is leadership. 🍍

A retreat named Be Seen deserves a room designed to do exactly that.Your Tax Coach brought us a group of powerful women ...
08/04/2026

A retreat named Be Seen deserves a room designed to do exactly that.

Your Tax Coach brought us a group of powerful women — entrepreneurs, all of them — for three days.
Night one opened with a welcome reception and a seated dinner on the rooftop, because people workshop differently once they’ve shared a table.
Days two and three were the work: breakouts, speakers, big questions — carried by the quiet machinery underneath. Breakfast out before the first session. Lunch that never interrupted a conversation. An afternoon snack timed to the 3pm dip.

The design had one job: hold the room, so the women in it could hold the floor.

They’ve already asked about next year. We’re not sure there’s a better review than that. 🍍

The salon is the oldest idea in hospitality: one host, one room, and the right people around one table. I’ve spent twent...
08/02/2026

The salon is the oldest idea in hospitality: one host, one room, and the right people around one table.
I’ve spent twenty years learning what makes a room come alive. This fall, the Flaweless Salons make it an institution.

First evenings this fall. First access goes to The List — 48 hours before anyone else, always.
Joining takes ten seconds: flaweless.com/join, or the link in my bio. 🍍

July, remembered.1–4 🏝️ Three days as a private chef on a private island over Fourth of July weekend, cooking for six ad...
08/01/2026

July, remembered.
1–4 🏝️ Three days as a private chef on a private island over Fourth of July weekend, cooking for six adults and six little ones. My favorite kind of assignment.
5–8 ⚽ Bringing people together for the FIFA World Cup Final on the Flaweless Rooftop one last time. What a celebration.
9–10 🎹 Date night at listening to the incomparable Quintin Harris ᵔᴗᵔ Trio. Pure magic.
11 🎉 Celebrating Jonathan Wagner Jr. with a surprise birthday dinner.
12–19 🌿 A peaceful upstate escape with family—slowing down, recharging, and soaking up the summer.
20 👀 And something new, taking shape. More very soon

Here’s to August 🍍

07/29/2026

A brunch is easy. A morning that gets twenty colleagues into the same room — actually the same room — is designed.

LEVEN’s real estate team works the way the industry works now: solo, remote, some from out of town, rarely all in one place. So for their annual rooftop breakfast, the table did the gathering: Flaweless staples, bubbly to toast the kickoff of another great summer, and the skyline and rooftop greenery doing what no centerpiece could.

And when the elevator gave out that morning, all of them climbed eight flights in business attire. That’s when we knew the morning had already worked.

Twenty people, one table, no agenda but each other. That’s the work. That’s Flaweless. 🍍

“I write, host, and design the art of gathering.”⁠⁠Three verbs, and they’re the shape of my actual life.⁠Words: The Ente...
07/28/2026

“I write, host, and design the art of gathering.”⁠
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Three verbs, and they’re the shape of my actual life.⁠
Words: The Entertainer Journal — the book, written in public, one essay at a time.⁠
Evenings: the Flaweless Salons, and every table I lead.⁠
Rooms: the spaces I design for gathering to happen.⁠
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One idea underneath all of it: hosting is leadership.🍍⁠
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Month two of being nomadic did not teach me what I predicted.I thought the lesson would be about place — that the craft ...
07/25/2026

Month two of being nomadic did not teach me what I predicted.

I thought the lesson would be about place — that the craft lives in my hands and not in a lease. True. Also the easy half. The harder truth: hospitality was never held up by infrastructure at all. It’s held up by the people who climb with you.

The full essay is in The Entertainer — link in bio. And if you know someone you’d want at the table with you, send them this. That’s how the table grows. 🍍

07/23/2026

On Sunday, the world watched the final. On one rooftop in New York, twenty-some people who mostly arrived as strangers left with each other’s numbers.

That was the point. The match was the excuse — the reason everyone said yes. The evening was the work: who sits near whom, when the food lands, what drinks flow when the whistle blows, how a room full of strangers becomes a room full of guests.

We call it Salon Zero. The first Flaweless Salons arrive this fall.

There’s a list. 🍍

07/22/2026

ISSUE FOUR of The Entertainer — my essay series on hosting — is out.

The night before a fifty-guest surprise party, a fire chief with a pickax shut down my elevator. Eighteen hours later, the party happened anyway — just not where anyone planned.

But that’s only half the essay. The other half is what happened three weeks later, when the elevator died again — and thirty guests in heels looked up eight flights of stairs and answered with four words I’ll be quoting for the rest of my life.

The whole story is in the Journal — Substack link in bio. And if you know someone who’d climb with you, send them this. 🍍

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