Just like food vices (curly fries, anyone?), everyone has a guilty-pleasure musical treat they indulge in when the mood strikes (and, shhh, more than a few of our staffers copped to Katy Perry). We asked some of this year’s JBF Awards gala chefs to fill us in on their own musical vices—whether closeted or unabashed. Here are their top picks:
Jonathan Benno, Lincoln Ristorante, NYC
Notorious B.I.G.
Dante Boccuzzi, Dante, Cleveland
Styx
Bill Corbett, The Absinthe Group, San Francisco
Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”
JBF Award Winner Brooks Headley, Del Posto, NYC
“The Monkees. God, I love the Monkees. But I don’t feel that guilty about it...”
Michael Hudman, Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Memphis
Queen’s “Somebody to Love”
Naomi Pomeroy, Beast, Portland, OR
Aaliyah and Timbaland’s “Are You That Somebody”
JBF Award Winner Paul Qui, Qui, Austin
Bruno Mars
Kevin Sbraga, Sbraga Dining, Philadelphia
Lionel Richie
Andy Ticer, Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Memphis
The soundtrack from Rocky
Banks White, Minton’s, NYC
John Legend’s “Ordinary People”
