14 new york | december 23, 2019–january 5, 2020180 minutes with ...
Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Serving up cucumber ball gags at the
model-actor-artist-cook’s conceptual dinner series.
by katy schneiderPhotograph by Michael Bailey-GatesB
obbi salvör menuez is
standing on a table at Lee’s,
an event space in Chinatown,
in toe socks and a Fear Factor
T-shirt, carefully sprinkling
pigeon feathers around the place set-
tings. “They’re from a friend’s rooftop
coop in Bushwick,” they say, nudging a
feather toward the centerpiece, a care-
fully considered mess of dirt, daisies,and metal containers, with a foot. Be-
hind Menuez, 26, the artist Precious
Okoyomon deposits a tray full of green-
ish globes into the freezer. “That’s for
the sixth course,” Menuez says. “The
cold-pressed-cucumber ball gags.”
The artist, model, and actor (most
recently seen on HBO’s Euphoria) is pre-
paring for a convening of the MSG Club,
a conceptual dinner series founded byintelligencerTRANSMITTED________ COPY ___ DD ___ AD ___ PD ___ EIC2619INT_Encounter_lay [Print]_36350230.indd 14 12/17/19 3:12 PM14 new york | december 23, 2019–january 5, 2020
180 minuteswith...Bobbi Salvör MenuezServingup cucumberballgagsat the
model-actor-artist-cook’sconceptualdinnerseries.
bykatyschneiderPhotograph by Michael Bailey-Gatesobbi salvörmenuezis
standingona tableat Lee’s,
an event space in Chinatown,
in toe socks and a Fear Factor
T-shirt, carefully sprinkling
pigeon feathers around the place set-
tings. “They’re from a friend’s rooftop
coop in Bushwick,” they say, nudging a
feather toward the centerpiece, a care-
fully considered mess of dirt, daisies,andmetalcontainers,witha foot. Be-
hindMenuez,26,theartistPrecious
Okoyomon deposits a tray full of green-
ish globes into the freezer. “That’s for
the sixth course,” Menuez says. “The
cold-pressed-cucumber ball gags.”
The artist, model, and actor (most
recently seen on HBO’s Euphoria) is pre-
paring for a convening of the MSG Club,
a conceptual dinner series founded byintelligencer