Netflix’s highly-anticipated seventh season debut features Chef Kwame Onwuachi, a native New Yorker whose rapid rise to culinary stardom was captured in intimate detail on screen. Max Ries Productions was enlisted to produce the premiere, which took place across three different locations at Lincoln Center. The night began with a red carpet cocktail reception, entertainment by the Juilliard Players, and a central bar retrofitted in homage to the bodegas which played a central role in Kwame’s youth. Guests viewed a screening of the episode, followed by a Q&A with Chef Kwame and Padma Lakshmi. Guests strolled across the plaza to Tatiana, where they partied late into the night.