--- title: Drake Ate Dinner at Ayesha Curry's Pop-Up Restaurant description: Drake showed up to the launch of Ayesha Curry's pop-up style restaurant, International Smoke, to test out her culinary prowess. canonical: https://time.com/4360231/drake-steph-curry-ayesha-curry-pop-up-restaurant/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-07T19:19:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:05.017Z og:title: Drake Ate Dinner With Steph Curry at Ayesha Curry's Pop-Up Restaurant og:description: "Chef Curry with the pot" og:url: https://time.com/4360231/drake-steph-curry-ayesha-curry-pop-up-restaurant/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Drake Ate Dinner With Steph Curry at Ayesha Curry's Pop-Up Restaurant twitter:description: "Chef Curry with the pot" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Drake Ate Dinner With Steph Curry at Ayesha Curry's Pop-Up Restaurant > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 7, 2016 7:19 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 7, 2016 7:19 PM UTC When [Drake](http://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/) dropped “0 to 100” back in 2014, [Ayesha Curry](http://time.com/3908307/ayesha-curry-parenting/) responded to the track’s mention of her husband — Golden State Warriors point guard [Steph Curry](http://time.com/4159715/stephen-curry-says-hes-the-best-player-in-world/) — with a [parody video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjU7BYcJwIw) in which she reminded the Toronto rapper that she is the real “Chef Curry with the pot.” Drizzy [reposted the video](https://www.instagram.com/p/wOam1-DQF4/) to his Instagram shortly afterwards, but had to wait over a year to find out whether she could actually back up her claims. On Saturday, the 6 God showed up to the launch of Ayesha’s pop-up style restaurant, International Smoke, to finally test out her culinary prowess. Several attendees shared photos of the guests at the opening — including Drake and Steph — as they dined on the [four-course, family-style meal](http://www.essence.com/2016/06/06/drake-supports-ayesha-curry-pop-up-restaurant) that will be available at Chef Michael Mina’s Test Kitchen in San Francisco through July. 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