About Famous Fat Dave
email: Dave@FamousFatDave.com
I am a New York City cab driver with a more-than-healthy appetite. If you see a white Checker Cab rolling down the street in New York it’s me, so stick your hand out to hail me and say hi.
Since I began moonlighting as a cabbie in 2001, I’ve also worked as a bread truck driver for Orwasher’s Bakery, a pickle man on the sidewalk at Guss Pickles, a Nathan’s hot dog vendor in the stands at the Cyclones ball park in Coney Island, a cheesemonger at Murray’s Cheese, and a freelance food writer.
Each time I drop off a fare, I inquire as to where to eat in the neighborhood. With this unique knowledge of where real New Yorkers eat, I offers private, customized eating tours in my Checker Cab which I have dubbed Famous Fat Dave’s Five Borough Eating Tour On The Wheels Of Steel. I am filming a pilot episode of the tour to pitch to the Food Network, National Geo, or Fox News. I’m also writing a book about eating like a fat cabbie. To hear The Famous Fat Dave theme song, read published food writing, read about Famous Fat Dave in the press, take virtual eating tours, download a press release, or book an eating tour visit www.famousfatdave.com.
Sweetness! Tour New York in style in the very last Checker A12 ever to come off the assembly line. It fits five (plus me) very comfortably, and this city’s characters come out the woodwork to talk to us while we are in this mean American nostalgia machine.
Even though my Checker is white, I’m lovingly pressed up against a classic yellow one like the one I used to shoot a Food Network pilot and the Tony Bourdain show.
Yeah . . . I’m down with Bourdain. We hang.
The white stallion is too big to fit in one picture. There’s enough room in the back seat to extend you legs allll the way so you’ll be touring New York in style
Performing my duties as Famous Fat Dave: Tour Guide as I bring four spumonis to the table in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
This shot was taken by one Greg Smeck of Astoria, Queens on my very first day as a yellow cabbie after a run to LaGuardia Airport. Notice the wad of cash I brazenly flaunt to the camera
Working hard or hardly working at Murray’s Cheese Shop
Multitasking: eating a falafel and driving a cab
My internship at Guss Pickles was the five years I spent eating pickles as a regular customer.
Starting in 2002, I began eating the pickles while I stood BEHIND the barrels. It was not rare to be accused of “eating the profit.”
An artistic, soft shot taken by one Jeeeeenifer Cabrera of my days at the minor league ball park in Coney Island vending Nathan’s hot dogs to Cyclones fans.
A gritty, sweaty shot of a me getting ready to devour a Nathan’s hot dog I couldn’t sell immediately upon quiting for the night. Notice the wrapper isn’t even removed.
