Joe Isidori - Arthur & Sons
WHO: Joe Isidori is a cookbook author, food TV personality and chef-owner of Arthur & Sons.
ABOUT: Joe Isidori is an acclaimed Michelin star chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, best known as the co-founder and co-creator of popular restaurant franchise Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beers. Isidori is a third-generation chef whose family has owned restaurants in New York’s tristate area since 1954, including his grandmother’s renowned Manhattan restaurant The Villanova, Artie’s Bar and Butcher Shop in Harlem and Artie’s Steak and Liquor Lounge in Brooklyn run by his grandfather, and Arturo’s Tavern in Westchester County and Peppino’s in Greenwich, Connecticut run by his father.
After graduating from culinary school in 2000, Isidori cooked in prestigious kitchens including Nemo Restaurant in Miami, Florida, and East Hampton’s Pacific East. He returned to Florida in 2004 to run the Mar-a-Lago estate and Trump Hotel Collection restaurants. In 2008, Isidori was awarded a Michelin star for his work at DJT, a restaurant at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Isidori has since opened the sustainable seafood eatery Southfork Kitchen in the Hamptons in 2010, and acclaimed pasta restaurant Arthur on Smith in Brooklyn in 2011. In 2015, Joe opened Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beers, which expanded to numerous domestic and international locations including Singapore, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates. In spring 2022, he opened Arthur & Sons and in 2024 opened Arthur & Sons Italian American Club, both in the West Village, along with the newly opened Arthur & Sons in Bridgehampton.
He has appeare on “The TODAY Show,” “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning,” as well as participating in Food Network shows such as “Iron Chef America,” “Barefoot Contessa: Cook Like a Pro,” “Beat Bobby Flay,” and “Extreme Chef.” In 2016, he wrote his first cookbook, Craft Burgers and Crazy Shakes from Black Tap. His second cookbook will share the recipes and stories from his Italian American family’s three generations in New York’s restaurant business.
WHAT: Isidori — acclaimed chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author — shares a menu of hearty, old-school, Italian-American classics culled from his West Village hotspot Arthur & Sons.
WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 6:00 - 8:00 PM EST
WHERE: De Gustibus Culinary Studio