From February 2016 through early 2019, Flay dated Heléne Yorke. According to reports, March and Flay split in March 2015, and their divorce was finalized on July 17, 2015. On February 20, 2005, Flay married actress Stephanie March. In 1998, Flay and Connelly split up and later divorced. Sophie, their daughter, was born to them. Flay and Ponzek separated in 1993, and he married Kate Connelly, his second wife, in 1995. On May 11, 1991, Flay married Debra Ponzek, another chef. Waxman introduced Bobby to southwestern and Cajun cuisine, which then defined his culinary career. He, however, took a position as a chef working for restaurateur Jonathan Waxman at Bud and Jams. He then quit when he realized he was not ready to run a kitchen. While he was at the Brighton Grill on Third Avenue, he was handed the executive chef’s position after a week when the executive chef was fired. After school, he started working as a sous chef and quickly learned the culinary arts. The owner, Joe Allen was impressed by Flay’s natural ability and agreed to pay his partner’s son’s tuition at the French Culinary Institute.įlay went ahead to receive a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984. He then took a position making salads at Joe Allen Restaurant in Manhattan’s Theater District, where his father was a partner.

His first jobs in the restaurant industry were at a pizza parlour and Baskin-Robbins.

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