This 19-Year Old Chef Has a Successful Restaurant on the Lower East Side

Gem is a Lower East Side restaurant started by acclaimed nineteen-year-old chef Flynn McGarry. In this video from CNBC's Make It series, learn more about the young celebrity chef's rise in the culinary industry.

Flynn McGarry, 19, is the chef at Gem on New York's Lower East Side. Having been celebrated in the culinary world since he was 12, McGarry is now working to shed the "kid chef" label with his first permanent fine dining restaurant.

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