Matt McCallister on Getting Sober, Losing His Restaurant, and Why He Is Going Back Ep. 212
Chef Matt McCallister is the Food and Wine Best New Chef 2014, three-time James Beard Award finalist, and one of a handful of chefs to ever receive a five-star review from the Dallas Morning News. He opened FT33 in Dallas in 2012, followed it with Homewood, and is now opening River Sing, a 24-seat tasting menu restaurant in Fair Park, Dallas, in fall 2026. He has been sober since 2016.
This episode is the less glamorous side of the chef world that people do not talk about.
How the success of FT33 accelerated access to every vice that was already available, and what that looked like by 2016…
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