Inside Girl & The Goat’s Successful Chef-Restaurateur Partnership

Kevin Boehm, co-founder of Boka Restaurant Group, and chef Stephanie Izard began their working relationship shortly before the opening of Girl & the Goat in Chicago eight years ago. The partnership has since developed and two more restaurants followed (Little Goat and Duck Duck Goat). The two parties are about to take their business outside Chicago for the first time with a new opening in Los Angeles. The key to such a fruitful working relationship, according to Boehm and Izard, is trust. "We trust that we're both having the best interest at heart for the restaurants we have," Boehm said at Skift Restaurants Forum on Monday. The working relationship will be tested in the coming months as Boehm and Izard prepare to open in Los Angeles next June. "We always wanted to do something outside Chicago at one point. We were looking for the perfect city, the perfect time," Boehm said. Izard said: "To make that big leap... had to feel just right, [it] had to be the right neighborhood