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Scandal in Outerspace: Three Chefs Leave Restaurant Amid Management Issues

While pop-ups Ha's Đặc Biệt and Kreung Cambodia ended their residencies at Outerspace last week, they will be bringing their menus to Grimm Ales today and tomorrow.

Scandal in Outerspace: Three Chefs Leave Restaurant Amid Management Issues

Scandal in Outerspace: Three Chefs Leave Restaurant Amid Management Issues

While pop-ups Ha's Đặc Biệt and Kreung Cambodia ended their residencies at Outerspace last week, they will be bringing their menus to Grimm Ales today and tomorrow.

Scandal in Outerspace: Three Chefs Leave Restaurant Amid Management Issues
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On July 7, the pop-ups’ three chefs pulled out of their residencies at Outerspace, part of the popular East Williamsburg event space 99 Scott.

Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns of Ha’s Đặc Biệt and Chinchakriya Un of Kreung Cambodia took to Instagram to formally announce the end of their Southeast Asian tasting menu for Outerspace.

Exterior of 99 Scott with map of different businesses within it posted on the front.
Outside one of 99 Scott’s many entrances; a layout of its labyrinthine grounds attached to the facade.

The decision came a day after Pete Wells posted a glowing review in the New York Times calling it “the restaurant of the summer.” Bushwick Daily also covered the pop-up. 

Per Kreung’s Instagram post , the creative team’s exodus had little to do with that review and all to do with the mistreatment they…

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