Kevin Garrett

Kevin Garrett is Executive Chef at The Long Island Bar in Brooklyn, New York, United States, a role that places him at the heart of one of the borough’s most enduringly convivial rooms. Since moving to New York in 2016, he has been working within a hospitality landscape defined by pace, pressure, and constant reinvention, and his current post at the Brooklyn bar and restaurant gives that trajectory a clear center. In a city where kitchens can feel as kinetic as the streets outside, Garrett’s position suggests a steadier kind of presence: the chef responsible for shaping the food side of a place whose identity lives in the balance between bar energy and restaurant discipline. The Long Island Bar itself is part of the story here, and Garrett’s title as Executive Chef signals the level of trust placed in him to guide the kitchen’s day-to-day rhythm. His work unfolds in a setting where the bar and the dining experience are closely intertwined, and where the food must hold its own while remaining in conversation with the room’s easy, sociable atmosphere. That balance is central to understanding the role: not simply cooking, but helping define how the venue feels from the first order to the last plate. New York, and Brooklyn in particular, has a way of rewarding chefs who can read a room as well as a menu, and Garrett’s move in 2016 marks the beginning of that chapter. The date anchors his path in a very specific moment, placing his current work within the recent evolution of the city’s hospitality scene. From there, his profile is defined less by a long public paper trail than by the significance of the post he holds now: Executive Chef at The Long Island Bar, in a neighborhood and a city where even familiar names are constantly being reconsidered through the lens of the present.