The Meatball Shop is less than a year old on the Lower East Side, but co-owners Michael Chernow and chef Daniel Holzman are already poised to open two more locations before the end of the year, and ...

It's just another day for co-owners Mike Chernow (general manager) and Dan Holzman (executive chef) of The Meatball Shop, making meatballs, serving meatballs and--well, a given--telling (meat) ball ...

The Meatball Shop’s rapid expansion led to multimillion-dollar failures. Holzman explains how growing too quickly can sink a business. Holzman shares how real respect for employees creates a stronger ...

Remember 170 Bedford, a biggest sale in November that went for $1,900,000? That’s the new spot for the Lower East Side’s popular Meatball Shop, which the NY Times mentioned shortly after the property ...

And with lids raised (left to right: vegetarian meatballs with Parmesan cream, spicy pork with mushroom sauce, chicken with meat sauce). The interior of the Meatball Shop, showing the wall display of ...

While James Villas’s latest book, From the Ground Up (Wiley, Oct. 2011), explores the intrinsic pleasures of ground meat, Holzman and Chernow try to go one better in this well-rounded collection by ...