Restaurateurs behind The Meatball Shop and Toro dish on New York's food scene — mashable.com

Join Michael Chernow, co-founder of The Meatball Shop, and Jamie Bissonnette, James Beard Award-winning chef and co-owner of famed tapas joint Toro, two individuals driving the modern food industry, as they drive through Brooklyn in search of great pizza. Tattoo-covered, with slick haircuts and tight jeans, Michael Chernow and Jamie Bissonnette might, at first glance, appear to be rock stars. And they are — but the urban restaurant scene is their stage, and their fans are their establishments' devoted patrons. Bissonnette is chef/owner of Boston’s Coppa and New York/Boston’s Toro, and Chernow is co-founder of New York mini-chain, The Meatball Shop. The pair, who have known each other through the food scene for some time, met up on a sunny fall morning in the Lower East Side, home to the very first Meatball Shop location. As the two sit at the restaurant’s counter sipping coffee, they catch up and prepare to embark on an epic, epicurean journey to Brooklyn.

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