Frank DiMattina is a culinary genius whipping up the finest of dishes by day, and by night, he’s a dedicated family man with a passion for bringing people together one meal at a time.
The “Food Boss” shows off his favorite Italian meals on New York Living.
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nope what is happening our next guest is
a culinary genius whipping up the finest
of dishes and by night he’s a dedicated
family man with a passion for bringing
people together one meal at a time it’s
all in the hips all in those hips what
did we just watch Franky matina is best
known as the food boss he’s a
self-taught chef from Brooklyn whose
passion for simple fresh ingredients
play a big part in everything he makes
whether it’s for his family or his
dinner guests Frank joining us this
morning Welcome to New York living is
your dog okay it looks like you’re
scared no my dog’s good how you doing
nice to meet you thank you for being
here it’s a pleasure we’re going to have
a lot of fun yes first of all are we
expecting anybody else cuz you have
enough to feed New York City here I said
it was like 300 coming so I figured cook
a lot this is the full Italian
experience though this is one nighter
one night one nighter was this what
Mother’s Day looked like yesterday at
your house this is more compared to what
we did what did you do did you cook
everything truthfully we actually worked
on Mother’s Day oh so some of us work I
get it I get it had people coming into
our restaurant our catering hall so we
worked God bless and God bless I was
going to say lucky for them so where did
this love and passion for cooking come
from bring us to the beginning please we
started back in Brooklyn then we went to
Wall Street one of the first time
restaurants on Wall Street Mark Franks
so my mother taught us self taught but
so I was in the kitchen since so you
could see okay exactly uh you’re known
for the those videos the viral food boss
videos but but who else is Behind These
who’s taking these videos who’s kind of
like you know your Su who’s sheering
who’s who’s directing juny had it juny
brought it to another level my son
Junior hi Junior J in the back you know
what Junior why why don’t you come on
out come on out you are one half of the
food boss Junior Round of Applause for
junior everybody very very nice to see
you D is this just how your dad’s been
and you’re like I got to start filming
this one day and put it on Tik Tok he he
always cooked like this he didn’t really
want to be on a camera so one day he
finally let me record him on Mother’s
Day and on Mother’s Day million views
first time how long ago was this uh
three years ago now wow crazy okay so
does he between us
girls does he cook like this at home is
the food that Del crazy he’s a little
overwhelming but he cooks a lot have you
ever had anything that he made that you
did not like uh no not that not that I
could say not that you could say on live
television he’s like I’ll tell you later
no everything he cooks is good a lot of
personalities in the house so everybody
wants different meals I’m coming over
for Sunday dinner you’re welcome you’re
welcome please uh the what what’s
happening on this I know where to start
what have you brought with us what have
you brought with you today for us where
should we start so we have our own
sources out uh food Bo sources amazing
we have our own spreads out we make our
own garlic spreads okay so we have a
Tomah Tomahawk here without garlic
spread on there that delicate thing well
there’s there’s the sauces let me be
like Vana White yeah so this is the
tomahawk right here okay that’s a
tomahawk that’s a stuffed ve Chop on the
other side oh is that all a truffle
cream sauce how much does that weigh let
me about 5 P about
55b you have to stay in shape this one’s
maybe like two and a half heavier this
is a stuffed what that’s a stuffed whe
chop oh my alone little breadcrumbs
truffle and truffle cream sauce over
here we have another that’s a a bone in
RI eye he’s heavy with truffle butter
that’s our truffle butter on top okay
what’s this that’s just a regular basic
filet Monon oh that’s that’s my that’s
my type and then just a poultry sandwich
just a sandwich a warm up that’s War
that’s a chicken cutlet sandwich don’t
get it twisted it’s not just any poultry
that’s a nice C that’s a warm up that’s
a starter that’s what we do for starters
this is and look this is a starter look
at the most
beautiful now I I have to warn you tell
me one of one of your co-hosts like
shrimp one one of your co-hosts does not
okay I I might eat it today though I
mean how can if you can get her to eat a
shrimp you going to get the key to
Midtown East wow that’s great that
shrimp is unbelievable it’s a Thai chili
sauce it’s really tasty and you know
what that shrimp we just caught it this
morning in the Hudson okay pass
pass seriously did you make this today
yeah we just made that this morning wow
so you have she going in you’re going in
drum roll see let’s see if she likes it
and what do you think it’s good all
right I’m going to pretend that I’m not
feeling what I’m feeling when I’m trying
it’s a texture thing let me get a napkin
I saw one right here there’s a napkin
right here we brought a special the
perfect kick though it’s a little kick
right so you have a new restaurant
opening up yeah we we open up a
restaurant in uh on 6th Avenue in East
in the West Village look at you so it’s
C Del Cheo that means food boss in
Italian so boss of the
foodo okay it’s a nice nice place uh and
we’re excited to open up maybe three
more weeks I was going to say when
should we show up we be there for the
soft opening when theable we have a
table set for you guys anytime you show
up fantastic special table now you you
you brought some I I see something over
there it is is that a pink drill what is
that it’s like a flamethrower so we we
cooked this like you know an hour or two
ago from a cadin hle in St on Ariana
South so what we did was we have to
bring it back to life so we put our
truffle butter on there we bring it back
to life like see he brings it back to
life you carry that with you everywhere
you go everywhere unbelievable do we
have time to do a demo what you we have
one minute left what we throwing in here
all right nothing we can do nothing once
again can I eat something else yes can
we try try you want try you want to try
you like ve you want a ve chop pom love
I would love to try some ve you want to
try some ve I know you want to bite into
the sandwich look at that knife how
about chicken you want to try chicken
fren Chase try chicken frase I’m hungry
too poor Jun I’ll deal with by the way
that’s my nightmare every night I’m
hungry a you at home should know a lot
of garlic in there the food boss brought
his entire family I mean they travel
deep my wife my daughter my son-in-law
future son-in-law and all of it Frank
the food boss Anthony the family thank
you all so much for coming don’t forget
to follow him on the gram at what’s the
dog uh Sophia and roma they are baby
Soph and roma we love you as well
unbelievable thank you for coming don’t
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