Cincinnati Magazine
January 21, 2021
Brandon Martin and Anthony Notaro know what it’s like to be starving artists: they were in a not-so prosperous band together during their freshman year at Xavier University. Fortunately, they weren’t literally starving just hungry for success. Ten years and some business education later, the pair has teamed up again to create Starving Artist Hospitality, and their culinary future looks brighter than their old band’s.
Brandon Martin
Anthony Notaro
Photograph courtesy of Anthony Notaro
After bopping around the arts scene, the two found themselves working in corporate America. Notaro worked at a tech startup in Phoenix and Martin worked at an artificial intelligence firm in New York. “Sitting behind a desk and making cold calls was not really an avenue of happiness for either one of us,” says Martin, Starving Artist’s CEO. “We were starving for a new opportunity.”