Amy Sacco
Sacco grew up in New Jersey, the youngest of eight kids and the daughter of a trucker. As a teenager she worked in a local restaurant part-time and snuck off to the city at night to hit up clubs like Area and Palladium. She went on to attend culinary school before snagging a front-of-the-house gig at David Bouley's restaurant Bouley, later taking jobs at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Vong, Peter Glazier's Monkey Bar, and the club System. In 1997, thanks to a little help by Yvonne Force Villareal (who had worked alongside her at Bouley), Sacco rounded up the $1.2 million she needed to open a venue of her own, and Lot 61 debuted a year later in an art-filled former truck garage in Chelsea. She followed with the tropically-themed Bungalow 8 in 2000. Bette, which she named in honor of her mother, opened in 2005 read full bio here.
Recent Sightings
Denzel Washington and Lenny Kravitz getting a private tour of the new Kiki de Montparnasse luxury sex shop in SoHo as a dinner party went on upstairs for Amy Sacco, Vikram and Priya Chatwal, Aby Rosen and Terry Richardson
