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Flynn McGarry, 13, is one of America’s ‘hottest chefs’

He's only in the eighth grade yet he's being called "one of the country's hottest chefs."

Thirteen-year-old Flynn McGarry started cooking just three years ago, yet already runs his own "progressive American cuisine" once-a-month pop-up restaurant named Eureka in his San Fernando Valley, California, home where he's turned his bedroom into "an experimental kitchen laboratory."

The New Yorker calls his mother, Meg, as a self-described "general manager and reluctant dishwasher."

NBC Nightly News recently profiled the young chef as he served up a one-night-only nine-course meal for 100 guests at Hollywood restaurant Playa.

"Flynn's a very unusual young man and he's very very passionate," says Playa owner and chef John Sedlar.

"Sometimes I sort of think that he's like you know reincarnated from like a French chef you know in the 1920s or something," Meg says of her culinary prodigy.

The NY Daily News outlines McGarry's short-term plans for the future:

"On his itinerary for the summer: after interning for Grant Achatz at Next and Alinea in Chicago, Modernist Cuisine's Food Lab in Seattle, McGarry plans to finish 8th grade."