EP 042·Apr 22, 2026·Local Businesses
The Supper Club That Became an Empire
Maya Okafor on building a restaurant the city couldn't stop talking about.
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- 1:04:00
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- 1 min
- Chapters
- 6
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Maya tells the real story behind the two-bedroom supper club that sold out for 18 months straight, the investors she turned down, and why every neighborhood now wants one of her restaurants.
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№ Chapters6
- 010:00Cold open: the night the line went around the block
- 023:00Leaving a kitchen job with two weeks of savings
- 0312:00Why she turned down the first big investor
- 0426:00The city's most-criticized opening month
- 0544:00Opening a second location nobody expected
- 0656:00What she tells every young chef now
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