Star Chef: Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The staff at Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were amazed when they were served 400 gourmet hot dogs by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, one of the world’s best chefs, straight from his black-and-white striped The Mark vending cart. It was a little thank you to nurses and doctors during the Covid pandemic. That’s because just two blocks away, Vongerichten runs the classy restaurant The Mark in the eponymous five-star hotel. There, his snacks, served from arguably the coolest cart in New York, are called 'haute dogs' and cost $6 each – if you like you can have them with kimchi vegetables.