America’s most fun chef Marc Weiss known as “DJ CHEF” is the only culinary entertainer who
simultaneously cooks gourmet food & deejays for special events and private parties around the world.
Marc started out deejaying local house parties at the age of 16 while learning about food from his great
grandfather “poppy”, a green market owner who taught him about all the fruits & vegetables in his store.
Marc started working as a prep cook in local eateries. After high school he went on to culinary school & became a chef. Marc graduated culinary school and honed his skills with top chefs like Bobby Flay& Matthew Kenney in fine restaurants of New York City. He spent a number of years running kitchens and
catering events throughout the NY metro area and received critical acclaim for his cooking in the New York
Times, Newsday & local papers. Marc's dinner parties began to be the talk of the town and he continued to
focus on that aspect of the food industry and started Marc Weiss Catering in 1998. After the launch of Food
Network, Marc saw food as entertainment and he set out to make cooking fun. Marc combined his two
passions of food & music and started entertaining at parties & events where he deejayed while preparing a
gourmet meal and began to be as know as the “DJ CHEF”. The parties got so popular that he was getting
requests to perform at major events. Marc then created a format where he deejays the event & serves a
gourmet food tasting for large scale events, food festivals and corporate functions.
His unique style created a buzz in the industry and it wasn't long before he appeared on the Food Network’s
“What’s Hot!, What’s Cool!” and co-hosted MTV’s Celebrity Spring Break Style special with Lindsay Lohan.
Other notable TV appearances include; MSNBC’s Entertainment Hot List, Discovery Channel’s Party Planner,
FUSE TV’s One Year Anniversary live on IMX, What’s Hot in the Hamptons with Gina Glickman & an NBC
News feature on the hottest trends in entertainment at the Biz Bash Event Style Show.
Marc has also been making the rounds on the celebrity soiree circuit performing Christy Brinkey & B.Smith’s
Blue Moon BBQ benefiting the East End Organic Farms in the Hamptons, James Blunt’s CD release Party at
BED NYC, Animal Fair Magazine's charity celebrity/pet fashion show with Lauren Conard, Dina & Ali Lohan,
Piper Perabo & Beth Ostrosky-Stern, an cooking competition with the Sopranos & numerous cocktail parties & benefits with A-List guests.
DJ CHEF is presently working on his own TV series & cookbook and is performing nationwide at special
events, corporate functions, launch parties, grand openings, food festivals & trade shows. Recent clients
include; Pepsi, Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci, Clairol, Target, Madison Square Garden, WebMD, Estee Lauder, W
Hotels, Trump National, & Mercedes-Benz.
Marc was recently honored by his Alma Mater the New York Restaurant School and will be inducted into their
Hall of Fame for his achievement & innovation in the culinary field. He is also is active in supporting charities.
Marc served as Honorary Chairman for an event to help in the fight against AIDS with LIACC and served as
the honorary chef for the March of Dimes Star Chef’s Gala. He will be donating his time this year as emcee
and judge for the Long Island Top Amateur Chef competition which will raise funds for a scholarship to send
a talented teen to culinary school.
DJ CHEF has performed his high energy cooking demonstrations at Viking Culinary, Williams Sonoma, ICE
Culinary, Bloomingdale, Macy’s Herald Square, Stew Leonard’s, Fairway, East Bay Farms, Hicks Nursery,
Alameda County Fair, New York Culinary Festival, Hamptons Home Show, NY & NE Bar Shows and at
numerous other venues, grand openings, trade shows & public events.
More information, video clips, photos from past events & booking info
website www.DJCHEF.com. |
