Michelle Wallace: Top Chef, Pop-Ups and Building a Career on Her Own Terms

truly a community building uh kind of situation right because you want people are hanging on to your next post where will you be can they trust your food in this space right and and you know It takes you communicating with them to be like, hey, you guys, you know, you start to have regulars.

It is crazy because I have people who show up.

They don't even care what's on the menu.

Just give me one of everything.

You know, they trust you.

They trust me.

And what? Yeah.

Yeah.

The service.

I'm literally out there with my sister, my brother and my nephew.

And let everyone know where you're.

Because you have regular pop-ups.

You're

at the Farmer's Market.

Which one and when? I'm at Rice Village Farmer's Market every first and third Sunday of the month.

And then I will, depending on what work brings, I obviously travel a lot.

But if I can pick up more markets, I typically do.

I've done one once did at third place.

So I really love kind of bouncing around because not everyone can make it on a Sunday.

I get so many emails like, when

are you not going to be doing a Sunday? So I try

to incorporate a few pop ups that are not on a Sunday.

Yeah.

And tell kind of tell us give us an idea of what you serve like some of your sandwich because they're so good.

And like they're they're just comforting and indulgent.