Binding: Paperback
Description: A front - of - the - house Kitchen Confidential from a career ma tre d hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in - demand restaurants. From the glamorous to the entitled from royalty to the financially ruined everyone who wanted to be seen or just to gawk at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi - Azzolina helped run. His phone number was passed around among those who wanted to curry favor during the decades when restaurants replaced clubs and theater as well theater in the most visible vibrant city in the world. Besides dropping us back into a vanished time Your Table Is Ready takes us places we d never be able to get into on our own: Raoul's in Soho with its louche club vibe; Buzzy O Keefe's casually elegant River Caf (the only outer - borough establishment desirable enough to be included in this roster) from Keith Mc Nally's Minetta Tavern to Nolita's Le Coucou possibly the most beautiful room in New York City in 2018, with its French Country Auberge - meets - winery look and the most exquisite and enormous stands of flowers changed every three days. From his early career serving theater stars like Tennessee Williams and Dustin Hoffman at La Rousse right through to the last pre - pandemic - shutdown full houses at Le Coucou Cecchi - Azzolina has seen it all. In Your Table Is Ready he breaks down how restaurants really run (and don t) and how the economics work for owners and overworked staff alike. The professionals who gravitate to the business are a special tougher breed practiced in dealing with the demanding patrons and with each other in a very distinctive ecosystem that's somewhere between a George Orwell down and out in . dungeon and a sleek showman's smoke - and - mirrors palace. Your Table Is Ready is a rollicking raunchy revelatory memoir.
Title: Your Table Is Ready Tales Of A New York City Maitre D'
Author(s): Cecchi - Azzolina Michael
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250325747
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 1/23/2024
Category: Restaurant, Cafe & Pub Guides