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Luke Ostrom (born November 5, 1977 in Ithaca, New York) is a New York City-based restaurateur and owner of NoHo Hospitality Group, named one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing hospitality companies in America in 2016.

Since forming NoHo Hospitality Group with partners Chef Andrew Carmellini and Josh Pickard, the group has established a portfolio of award-winning restaurants and culinary services for hotels, live music venues, sporting arenas and airports in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Miami Beach, FL and Baltimore, MD. Their growing body of work includes Locanda Verde, The Dutch in New York City and Miami Beach, Joe’s Pub, The Library at The Public Theater, Lafayette, Bar Primi, Little Park, Evening Bar, Westlight, Mister Dips, Leuca, Rec Pier Chop House and The Cannon Room.

Ostrom first partnered with James Beard Award-winning Chef Andrew Carmellini to open A Voce in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park in 2006. Together they earned a three-star review from The New York Times and a Michelin star. In May 2009, they partnered with Robert DeNiro and launched Locanda Verde in The Greenwich Hotel receiving a James Beard Award nomination for Best New Restaurant. In the spring of 2011 Ostrom opened The Dutch, an American restaurant and oyster bar in SoHo that became number one in The New York Times' top ten list of the best restaurants to open that year. Later that year, The Dutch expanded with a second location in Miami’s W South Beach Hotel, and was awarded three stars by The Miami Herald. In 2012 Ostrom and his partners relaunched the food and beverage offerings at The Public Theater which included dinner and drink service inside Joe’s Pub, an iconic live music venue, and The Library, a restaurant and lounge serving dinner and classic cocktails. In 2013 they opened Lafayette, a French grand café and bakery inside NoHo's landmark Henry J. Hardenbergh-designed Schermerhorn Building. Bar Primi, their Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognized pasta restaurant on Bowery, opened in 2014 serving specialty pasta in a casual setting. In 2015 the group opened Little Park, a seasonal restaurant anchoring the Smyth Tribeca, and Evening Bar, a modern cocktail bar hidden away in its lobby. Esquire magazine named Little Park on the list of its Best New Restaurants to open that year. As of 2016, Ostrom and his partners also own and operate three distinct venues at The William Vale in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Westlight, a cocktail bar on the building's 22nd floor, Leuca, a southern Italian restaurant on the ground floor, and Mister Dips, a refurbished 1974 Airstream trailer that seasonally serves burgers and ice cream. In partnership with Plank Industries and The Sagamore Pendry Baltimore, Ostrom and his partners created Rec Pier Chop House, an Italian steakhouse, and The Cannon Room, a whiskey bar, in their Fell's Point, MD hotel that opened in March of 2017.

NoHo Hospitality Group's growing list of venues routinely garner critical acclaim in “best of” lists and publication awards, and have received multiple nominations from the James Beard Foundation and two coveted awards. In 2015, Ostrom was distinguished as a member of Crain’s New York Business’ class of “40 Under 40.”

Ostrom has also consulted with VV Ventures and the Las Vegas Sands; developed three eateries for OTG Management in the Delta Terminal of LaGuardia Airport; and created five concession locations of ‘Sausage Boss’ within Madison Square Garden, New York’s most famous arena.