News Summary

• Flynn McGarry was 19 years old when he opened his first restaurant, Gem.
• The grand project of Gem — and its follow-ups, Gem Wine and Gem Home — was discovering what that food was.
• “I’m really trying to create a restaurant that I, as a 10-year-old, would look up to,” he says.
• McGarry is the anchor tenant of a new development in the still-figuring-out-what-it-is neighborhood of Hudson Square.