A-List Editors' Choice 2016: Pop-Up Restaurant
Ben Grupe has credentials up to his chin—he’s a culinary Olympian, for crying out loud—but the 34-year-old chef fled the constraints of country clubs to begin a series of well-received pop-up dinners. Despite Grupe assuming the executive chef role at Elaia and Olio earlier this year, the dinner series will continue, except in October, when he takes his six-man team to Stuttgart in an attempt to bring home culinary Olympic gold.