David Manilow is a lifelong Chicagoan who has produced sports, travel and food related television programs for ABC, HBO, ESPN, CNBC, and PBS. In 2001, he created the Emmy and James Beard Award winning restaurant review program Check, Please! in Chicago and has since spun off local versions of the show in San Francisco, Seattle, Kansas City, Miami, Washington, DC, Phoenix, Philadelphia & Vienna, Austria. David has conducted more than a thousand interviews and also has a weekly food & drink podcast with Crain’s Chicago Business with plans to expand it to an omnichannel brand in 2022 called, “The Dining Table”.
David likes to travel the world with his wife and four kids and his favorite city to eat, besides Chicago, is Tokyo.