Willow's Chef Featured in NYT Weddings
The marriage-turned-restaurant opening of chef Tracy O'Grady and Brian Wolken was featured (subscription required) in Sunday's New York Times Vows section.
The couple, which is teaming up with Firehook Bakery co-founder Kate Jansen on Willow, decided to kill two birds with one stone by getting hitched and opening the restaurant on the same night.
O'Grady, a former sous chef at Kinkead's, was given away by Bob Kinkead at the Sept. 2 ceremony, which took place just hours before her new restaurant opened to 350 guests who were invited for a preview.
An excerpt from the NYT story: Precisely 70 minutes after saying I do, Ms. O'Grady headed into her new kitchen - still wearing her white satin-and-chiffon wedding dress - inspected her crew and emerged to open Willow. "I told her, 'You are not going to wear your chef coat to your wedding,' " said Dianne Kinkead, Mr. Kinkead's wife.
Willow is located at 4301 North Fairfax Drive. Wolken, O'Grady's new husband, serves as the restaurant's director of operations.
The couple, which is teaming up with Firehook Bakery co-founder Kate Jansen on Willow, decided to kill two birds with one stone by getting hitched and opening the restaurant on the same night.
O'Grady, a former sous chef at Kinkead's, was given away by Bob Kinkead at the Sept. 2 ceremony, which took place just hours before her new restaurant opened to 350 guests who were invited for a preview.
An excerpt from the NYT story: Precisely 70 minutes after saying I do, Ms. O'Grady headed into her new kitchen - still wearing her white satin-and-chiffon wedding dress - inspected her crew and emerged to open Willow. "I told her, 'You are not going to wear your chef coat to your wedding,' " said Dianne Kinkead, Mr. Kinkead's wife.
Willow is located at 4301 North Fairfax Drive. Wolken, O'Grady's new husband, serves as the restaurant's director of operations.