NY restaurant consultant spreads business across USA

A New York hospitality recruitment and placement agency is reaping the benefits of new hotel construction and restaurants across the country.

Steven Kamali, a New York-based restaurant consultant, launched The Chef Agency a year ago.

Kamali has been placing big-name chefs, and midlevel and top-tier executives, with hotel, casino and restaurant operators around the globe.

His latest New York deals are interesting developing food and beverage concepts for the new Four Seasons on Church Street and the recently opened Diamond Horseshoe in Times Square, a dinner theater being revived by developer Aby Rosen.

Rosen is spending $23 million to revive the once-fabled nightclub and cabaret from the late 1930s and 1940s at the Paramount Hotel.

Those at the New Years Eve launch of the clubs show, Queen of the Night before the official premiere in early February included actress Bonnie Wright, artist Jennifer Rubell, director Diane Paulus, and actors Ian McKellen and Peter Gallagher.

Kamali just executed a string of high-profile management agreements with three yet-to-be-announced celebrity chefs on behalf of Starwood Capital Group for its new hotel brands under development.In The Chef Agencys first year of business, the company completed more than 50 placements.

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NY restaurant consultant spreads business across USA