Goldman Trader-Turned-New York Chef Opens Restaurant in London
Steeled by a season of Hell's Kitchen and New York success, Chef Seth Levine takes Hotel Chantelle on the road
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Seth Levine headed home one day from his job on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Goldman Sachs Group. He noticed a line of people close to the corner of 54th Street and Lexington Avenue and asked, "What's going on?"
It was a queue to audition for Gordon Ramsay's reality TV show, Hell's Kitchen. Dressed in his business suit, Levine joined the back of the line. A few weeks later, he was in Los Angeles filming for the show's fifth series, which aired in 2009.