Eli Sussman

Chef & Co-Founder, Samesa
New York City, USA

Eli Sussman is the co-chef/owner of Samesa Restaurant located at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. He was previously the Executive Chef of Mile End Deli in Manhattan and Brooklyn and at Ruschmeyer’s in Montauk.  

He was a 2014 semifinalist for the James Beard Rising Star Chef Award and was selected as a 2012 Zagat NYC’s “30 under 30”. He has co-authored 4 cookbooks and has contributed to SAVEUR and Food & Wine. He hosts a weekly radio show on Heritage Radio Network called __theLINE where he interviews chefs and restaurateurs. He is on the NYC chef board of the hunger charity Share Our Strength and was invited to the White House during the Obama administration as part of a group of Share Our Strength chefs working to help end childhood hunger in the United States through the No Kid Hungry campaign.

He has appeared multiple times on The Today Show and in Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, People, GQ and Details. Samesa restaurant supports BLACK LIVES MATTER, the ACLU and local charities through reduced cost or free catering. Samesa identifies as a sanctuary restaurant committed to a zero tolerance workplace free of sexism, racism and xenophobia.