Your Table Is Ready Tales of a New York City Maître D'

"A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître 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 Café (the only outer-borough establishment desirable enough to be included in this roster), from Keith McNally's Minetta Tavern to Nolita's Le Coucou, possib

ISBN:	9781250281982
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Imprint:	St. Martin's Press
Published date:	10 Jan 2023
DEWEY:	647.95092
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220810
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	454g
Height:	235mm
Width:	155mm
Spine width:	25mm

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