The Buildout

Bateman’s is one of those New York bars that, if you know, you know. While other East Village cocktail bars have opened to plenty of fanfare, owners Natasha Van Duser and Carlo Olcese have taken a different approach, quietly building Bateman’s into one of the city’s great bars. Rather than compete for the spotlight, they used the neighborhood’s booming cocktail scene to their advantage, initially drawing in curious drinkers with little more than an A-frame sign that caught their eye as they moved between the East Village’s hottest spots.

On this episode of The Buildout, Natasha joins Adam to discuss how the idea for Bateman’s was born during Covid, why opening in the East Village was so important, and what inspired them to create a bar set inside the world of American Psycho.

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Rick Bayless is one of America's most celebrated chefs, known as much for championing local farmers and purveyors as he is for transforming the way Americans understand Mexican cuisine. Long before authentic regional Mexican cooking gained widespread recognition in the U.S., Bayless was determined to bring the flavors and traditions he fell in love with in Mexico to American diners. That passion led him to open Frontera Grill, a restaurant that would forever change the way Americans thought about Mexican food.

On this episode of The Buildout, Rick sits down with Adam to discuss his lifelong love affair with Mexico, the challenges of introducing authentic Mexican cuisine to American diners, and how he built one of the country's most influential restaurant empires.

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Corima is the result of one chef’s determination to place the food of Northern Mexico in the same culinary conversation as the French cuisine he first learned to cook.

Fidel Caballero joins Adam on this episode of The Buildout to discuss how he transformed a pandemic-era pop-up into a Michelin-starred destination—one that has already spawned two additional businesses, a bakery and a cocktail bar, in just three years.

Much of Fidel’s success comes from his passion and ambition, but it also reflects the influence of the mentors and guides who helped shape him along the way.

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Believe it or not, one of New Orleans’ most celebrated cocktail bars was never supposed to be a bar at all. But an annual Halloween party, a shared passion for historic cocktails, and an eleventh-hour clause in a city ordinance banning Airbnb rentals in the French Quarter would change everything. The result was Jewel of the South, one of the most acclaimed cocktail bars in the country.

On this episode of The Buildout, Adam sits down with owner John Stubbs to discuss his unconventional journey from politics to hospitality, what makes New Orleans such a special city for drinking, and how a Halloween party he threw with legendary bartender Chris Hannah sparked a friendship and partnership that would ultimately lead them to open Jewel of the South together.

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When Cody Pruitt opened Libertine, the acclaim was immediate. The restaurant became one of the hardest reservations in New York, while its saucisse-purée quickly took on a life of its own.

But three years later, the initial fervor had faded, and filling the dining room every night was no longer as easy as it once had been. Pruitt made the difficult decision to close Libertine and transform the space into a new concept: Capitaine.

Drawing on both the successes and shortcomings of Libertine, he set out to create a restaurant that would be easier for regulars to return to again and again. Pruitt joins Adam on this episode of The Buildout to discuss what he learned from Libertine and how he arrived at the tough decision to start over.

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