Prada-loving faux food influencer is a serial dine-and-dasher at top NYC eateries: cops

A Prada-wearing dine-and-dasher with a penchant for Michelin-star restaurants has been posing as an influencer to score freebie haute cuisine — while ripping off some of the city’s top eateries, cops say.Pei Chung, 34, of Brooklyn – who flaunts Prada heels, Louis Vuitton handbags and Hermes belts all over Instagram – has been arrested five times since late October for indulging at local high-end restaurants such as Peter Luger and Francie in Williamsburg, stiffing staffers and then blogging about her stolen fare, police and law-enforcement sources told The Post.Chung allegedly poses as a food influencer — complete with a camera and lighting set-up — and posts dishes such as Colorado lamb from the Michelin-starred European brasserie Francie and marbled meat from the famed Peter Luger to her 13,000 followers.She once even allegedly offered up sex in lieu of cash at Peter Luger. “She’s going into established restaurants dressed to the nines, racking up hundreds of dollars in food, defrauding them, then posting on Instagram like the restaurant hired her,” said a source close to Williamsburg’s new American restaurant Meadowsweet, which was allegedly one of Chung’s victims, to The Post. “All her cards were declined,” the source said.“Our team was confused – shocked.She was so self-assured and brazen about it,” added the source, who saw Chung allegedly dine and dash and equated her behavior to the “Bling Ring,” an infamous group of fame-obsessed mainly teen robbers who targeted celebs’ homes in California nearly two decades ago.The Brooklyn food fraudster — who lives in a luxury, waterfront high rise in Williamsburg — waltzed into Francie on Oct.

22, feasting on $15 foie gras, $32 carpaccio, $28 bucatini, $52 lamb, and $19 hot chocolate mousse, police and sources said.She bartered instead of paying the $188 bill, according to the police report.“She wanted to trade pictures and a blog post for the meal,” said John Winterman, ...