Food Network chef buys apartment in Inwood
BY LORE CROGHAN
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER
Sunday, July 20th 2008, 2:49 PM
Smith for News Patrick Coston outside the Inwood apartment building where he bought a large studio and is now renovating his kitchen.
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Pastry chef
Patrick Coston has fortified his career, adding guest spots as a judge on cable's "
Food Network Challenge" to his résumé.
Last winter, he decided to solidify his housing situation.
"It was time to stop wasting money on rent," said Coston, 37, who pays $1,800 a month for his part of a small two-bedroom West Village apartment he shares with a roommate.
Coston didn't have much time for apartment-hunting. He travels a lot for the Food Network series, in which chefs compete by doing things like making replicas of city skylines out of cake.
When he's not traveling, Coston works six days a week as a consulting chef, creating dessert menus and recipes for four restaurants in SoHo and
Greenwich Village.
The self-taught chef grew up in
Norman, Okla., and started working after high school. His talents led him to
Vail,
Colo., and
San Francisco.
He came to
New York in 1999 and worked for celebrity chef
Jean-Georges Vongerichten at Mercer Kitchen in SoHo and later as the pastry chef at Ilo in the
Bryant Park Hotel.
Coston got involved with the Food Network while on hiatus from the city a few years ago and working as the pastry chef at the
Ritz-Carlton in
Las Vegas. "Food Network Challenge" was taping a segment at the hotel and invited him to be a judge.
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