Interviews with Max Raskin

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Interview with John Peña

Interview with John Peña

John Peña is the owner of Gym NYC. He is a New Yorker.

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Jul 01, 2021
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“There a lot of things that are coming back…”

 Max Raskin: I want to ask you about New York. What were your favorite restaurants growing up?

John Peña: My favorite place to go as a kid was probably my dad's luncheonette, but I’m going to put that to the side. Besides that, it was probably a Chino-Cubano restaurant called the Apollo on Delancey Street. The…

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