In this episode, we sit down with our dear friend and early Bubby’s alum Maggie De Silva—artist, writer, brunch survivor, and jam-covered arm philosopher. Maggie takes us back to the very beginning of Bubby’s: before coffee, before hot food, before tables—just pie and a dream. We talk about eccentric Tribeca regulars (including a woman who ordered broth for her dog), surviving the infamous brunch shift, and how creativity lives in the margins of working parenthood.

Maggie also shares how losing a shared studio during the pandemic unexpectedly led her into installation art, why she’ll never hang certain pieces across from someone’s bed, and the joys of collecting weird objects and weirder stories. Along the way we cover JFK Jr., celebrity sightings, secret art hoards, outdoor cafés, artificial intelligence’s failure to replace real writers, and an unexpected tangent into babysitting, VHS porn, and the cow hoof cleaning algorithm of doom.

This one’s part nostalgia trip, part art world detour, and part tribute to making a life out of whatever scraps you’ve got lying around.

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