From the Midwest to Midtown, NoMad Diner’s Chef Fred Maurer is an award-winning chef with experience at restaurants including BKLYN Larder, Braeburn, Perilla, and Bar Boulud. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute at the winner of the Star Chefs Rising Star NYC Award (2015), Maurer has built a name for himself in the charcuterie world, winning and award for his Parisian Ham and earning the moniker “Hot Dog Boyfriend” for his work as Chef Charcutier at Dickson’s Farmstand Meats. Maurer is originally from Wooster, Ohio, where he began his career as a dishwasher and sang musical theater and opera in the kitchen of a Greek pizza joint.