Ava Dash On ‘Next Gen NYC’ Season 2, Her Famous Parents, & Cast Rumors

Ava Dash is having a very Next Gen NYC week. On a sunny Thursday afternoon, she strides into The Odeon restaurant in Tribeca, Manhattan, fresh off a sleepover with her Bravo castmates. “Yesterday, I woke up and did an interview, and then I went to Gia [Giudice]’s Pilates collab event,” she tells me. “Then I went to Soho and stopped at Shai [Fruchter]’s house because he just got a new place, and then I went to Emira [D’Spain]’s because the girls all had a little slumber party.” She smoothes her pale pink mini dress and tucks a can of yerba mate under the table. “I forgot not to bring this in here,” she says conspiratorially. “It’s like my security blanket; I can’t live without it.”

The Odeon isn’t a random pick. Dash grew up in Tribeca and has lived in a string of apartments around the neighborhood, including one directly above the restaurant. “We used to come here like every single day as a kid. They have the best french fries,” she says. “My dad would get a cheeseburger before he was vegan. It was always a really cute daddy-daughter date spot.”

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