--- title: Frank Sinatra Once Stole All of Emeril Lagasse's Silverware description: According to chef Emeril Lagasse, Frank Sinatra once stole all the silverware from his restaurant by taking it off the table. canonical: https://time.com/4489257/frank-sinatra-stole-emeril-lagasse-silverware/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T15:18:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:29.065Z og:title: Emeril Lagasse Says Frank Sinatra Stole His Silverware og:description: Bam! og:url: https://time.com/4489257/frank-sinatra-stole-emeril-lagasse-silverware/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ea433a68f3d828f/6988a5be0b72e36a286eaf8e/emeril-lagasse-frank-sinatra-silverware.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: emeril-lagasse-frank-sinatra-silverware og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emeril Lagasse Says Frank Sinatra Stole His Silverware twitter:description: Bam! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ea433a68f3d828f/6988a5be0b72e36a286eaf8e/emeril-lagasse-frank-sinatra-silverware.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Apparently, Frank Sinatra Once Stole All of Emeril Lagasse's Silverware  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 15, 2016 3:18 PM UTC  (Courtesy: Emeril Lagasse)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 15, 2016 3:18 PM UTC With almost [40 years to his credit in the kitchen and 13 restaurants](http://time.com/money/3697582/top-chefs-first-jobs/), plus a gig on _Top Chef_ and his upcoming show, _Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse_, the chef [Emeril Lagasse](http://entertainment.time.com/2009/08/06/top-10-tv-chefs/slide/emeril-lagasse/) has rubbed shoulders with plenty of celebrities. However, one of his most memorable anecdotes comes from one of the great dons of a different era: [Frank Sinatra](http://time.com/4139037/frank-sinatra-centennial/). In an interview with [_The A.V. Club_](http://www.avclub.com/article/emeril-lagasse-julia-child-and-time-frank-sinatra--242472), Lagasse details how he once cooked for Ol’ Blue Eyes — and ended up losing all his silverware in the process. Apparently, Sinatra came to Lagasse’s restaurant for dinner and proceeded to steal all of the silverware right off the table. “Frank Sinatra was an interesting evening,” Lagasse said. “He was just stealing silverware off the table. Then the next day, the general manager of the hotel he was staying at called me and said, ‘You might want to send somebody over, or come over yourself. I have a whole bunch of your silverware that was left in the hotel room.'” _Eat the World_ is currently on Amazon. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4489257/frank-sinatra-stole-emeril-lagasse-silverware/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4489257/frank-sinatra-stole-emeril-lagasse-silverware/"},"headline":"Apparently, Frank Sinatra Once Stole All of Emeril Lagasse's Silverware","datePublished":"2016-09-15T15:18:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:29.065Z","description":"Bam!","url":"https://time.com/4489257/frank-sinatra-stole-emeril-lagasse-silverware/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Food","frank sinatra","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ea433a68f3d828f/6988a5be0b72e36a286eaf8e/emeril-lagasse-frank-sinatra-silverware.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ea433a68f3d828f/6988a5be0b72e36a286eaf8e/emeril-lagasse-frank-sinatra-silverware.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"emeril-lagasse-frank-sinatra-silverware","caption":"","creditText":"(Courtesy: Emeril Lagasse)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4489257/frank-sinatra-stole-emeril-lagasse-silverware/","name":"Apparently, Frank Sinatra Once Stole All of Emeril Lagasse's Silverware"}}]}] ```