Roberta's Radio

Pastry chef, TV personality and overall bad-ass dude Sam Mason is this week’s guest on Roberta’s Radio. Formerly of WD-50, he now is one of culinary minds behind OddFellows Ice Cream Co. Hear him tell his career story, play an ice cream guessing game and share some laughs with host Anthony Falco. This program was brought to you Heritage Foods USA.

“Bird bush” has something to do with this week’s episode and it’s also St. Patrick’s Day. Yep.

Greg Goldman, GM of Roberta’s, and Aaron Arizpe, chef liaison/storyteller at Chef’s Club, return to Roberta’s Radio for another episode exploring the multi-faceted world of hospitality. They’re joined by guests Kevin Lind of Eleven Madison Park and Aaron Silverman of Rose’s Luxury in Washington DC. They group discusses the various challenges facing restaurants in the front of house and what makes a thriving, empowered staff in the restaurant industry. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA. “We were really picky about who we hired. we hired people we’d want to hang out with every day.” [05:00] –Aaron Silverman

What happens when TV is on internet radio? Find out this week on Roberta’s Radio. Anthony Falco is joined by Alex Serio & Kareem Ahmed of NYC.TV

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Are you sad? We’re sad. It’s a show about sadness, and it gets sadder than you’d expect. Sadly brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

Get ready for a very heady conversation about pizza on this week’s episode of Roberta’s Radio! Anthony Falco is joined by pizza expert and head of Scott’s Pizza Tours, Scott Weiner. Beyond running pizza tours, Scott also writes an award-winning column for Pizza Today Magazine, contributes to PMQ’s Pizza Magazine and PizzaMarketplace.com and judges pizza culinary competitions across the country. Scott’s pizza pontifications have been featured on the Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, Food Network, Discovery Channel, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine and just about every NYC-area periodical. Scott’s tours have been featured as a top tour onTripAdvisor, Yelp, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and several others. He is also the author of Viva La Pizza! The Art of the Pizza Box, a book about his Guinness World Record collection of pizza boxes from around the world. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA. “I make it really clear to people signing up for the tour that if all they want to do is eat, I d

This one’s for the kids. Are you a kid? Do you have kids? Were you once a kid? Do you want to be a kid? Tune in to a special episode of Roberta’s Radio!

This week’s episode of Roberta’s Radio is about SURVIVAL! Get your knives and get ready. Featuring Chef Erik, Mike Zorman, Kristen Berry and Max Bivona. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

The Time & Dedication Entertainment crew comes to Roberta’s radio to rap live in-studio and talk about their various projects. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA

Kerry Black of Superfly Presents (the team behind Bonnaroo) is this week’s guest on Roberta’s Radio. He chats with Anthony Falco about the history of Bonnaroo, his favorite pizza, the best music of 2014 and more. For the past two years Roberta’s (along with Full Service and Tiki Disco) has hosted parties in the Snake & Jake’s Christmas Club Barn at Bonnaroo. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

This week on Roberta’s Radio hear from Amanda Smeltz, the Wine Director/Sommelier at Roberta’s. She elaborates on everything from pairings to collections and shares some of what went into curating the esoteric and diverse list currently at Roberta’s. Find out how she got into wine, how she’s been able to maintain her second life as a poet and her tips for becoming a better taster. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with Chef Eric & The Boys (and Girl) as they tell the REAL story behind Thanksgiving. Be warned – Zorm has a SFX machine, Ryan Rice has thoughts on pecans and Greg Minning brings a pal. Things get chaotic. Listen at your own discretion. This program was brought to you by Roberta’s.

BushwickDaily first broke the news that SantaCon was headed to Bushwick this year and the entire neighborhood let out a collective groan. This week on Roberta’s Radio, the bars that make up this community official boycott the puke-filled pub crawl. Hear from Pearl’s Social & Billy Club, Three Diamond Door, Roberta’s, King’s County and Montana’s Trailhouse as they make it clear that SantaCon participants will not be welcome in Bushwick. Also hear from an anonymous “former Santa” who helped organize the event in its formative years as she explains why all of the good intentions behind the convention (anti-consumerism) have been overtaken by the new suburban wave of participants (drunken assholes). This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

On a hospitality themed episode of Roberta’s Radio, hear from Mark Canlis, fourth generation restauranteur who owns and operates Canlis restaurant in Seattle with his brother Brian. He chats with Greg Goldman, Robertas’ GM, and food writer/former server at Roberta’s Aaron Arizpe about the future of hospitality and the idea of putting staff first above everything else.The second of three sons, Mark grew up in a restaurant family. When he officially joined Canlis in 2003, he had already graduated from Cornell University, served as a Captain in Air Force Special Operations, and worked in nearly a dozen restaurants across the country. He met his wife, Anne Marie, while working for famed restaurateur Danny Meyer in opening Danny’s fifth restaurant, Blue Smoke, in Manhattan. Returning to Seattle, Mark spearheaded the effort towards generational transfer and brand modernization that has garnered the family business national acclaim as one of the finest restaurants in America. This program was brought to you by Herit

This week on Roberta’s Radio, it’s Chef Erik and the Boys. What does this mean? Well it means there are games, observations and stories. There’s Dominoes and there’s Little Ceasers. We’re talking about the Industry, we’re talking about health goth and we’re very very serious. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

Take a trip back to the early days of Roberta’s as co-owner Brandon Hoy talks to some of the longest tenured staff about their favorite memories of the cultural hub/restaurant. From nude waiters to beer drinking competitions – get a rare look into the forgotten world of Roberta’s in its first days of operation. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA f

Learn about the origins of Deth Killers and the early days of Bushwick on a brand new episode of Roberta’s Radio. Anthony Falco chats with Greg Minnig about how Deth Killers and Roberta’s came together to completely change the landscape of Bushwick. Deth Killers is a clothing line and motorcycle club that’s designed outfits for David Bowie, held dirtbike rallies in the back of Roberta’s and has been responsible for plenty of other unspeakable things. Later on, Erik Schwertfeger and Mike Zorman tell you everything you want to know about strip clubs and Halloween. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

This week on Roberta’s Radio! Pizza boss Anthony Falco chats with Adam Kuban, the founding publisher of Slice NY, a weblog devoted to the subject of pizza. He’s now taking the next step and making his own pizza at Margot’s, a popup at Emily’s in Clinton Hill. Ryan Rice, the Roberta’s catering chef, is also in the studio to talk about the crazy things he has to deal with as a catering chef. Later in the show, Roberta’s album Angelo Womack calls in to talk about his new restaurant Oak & Rye in Los Gatos, California. Tune in for an actual conversation about pizza from people who know their pizza. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

This week on Roberta’s Radio Anthony Falco interview his son Frank about Pizza and the Sports Dudes team reunites. What does this all mean? Tune in and find out.