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ISBN
1250325749
EAN
9781250325747
Publication Name
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
Artist
Cecchi-Azzolina, Michael
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250325749
ISBN-13
9781250325747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3060626949

Product Key Features

Book Title
Your Table Is Ready : Tales of a New York City Maître D'
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Individual Chefs & Restaurants, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Culinary, General
Genre
Travel, Cooking, House & Home, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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Trade
Reviews
"For more than three decades I've known Michael Cecchi-Azzolina as a great and gracious Maitre d' at some of New York's hottest restaurants. Who knew he was such a talented writer, or that he was having more fun behind the scenes than most of his guests? Your Table is Ready is the Front of House Kitchen Confidential --a funny, raunchy, savvy and hugely entertaining book." --Jay McInerney "This peek behind the curtain reveals how a master restaurateur creates a scene so magical that big spenders, delicate egos and the eternally entitled will do almost anything to be in one of the seats at showtime. YOUR TABLE IS READY is required reading for anyone who wants to crack the code on how to get a coveted reservation in the see-and-be-seen restaurants of the moment in New York--or anywhere in the world!"--Michael Fazio, author of Concierge Confidential "This book is funny, nostalgic, and fascinating, an insider's peek into New York City's most iconic restaurants--including so many of my favorites! From late nights dancing at The Water Club when I was a young actress, to impromptu chats over a glass of wine at Raoul's when I was a young mother, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina captures a golden era. I always feel welcome the minute I see Michael wearing his warm smile, cool glasses and elegant suits and I always leave him laughing; Your Table is Ready will do the same for you." --Brooke Shields "Michael Cecchi-Azzolina saw it all: the adrenaline-fueled days that built toward the mayhem of a dinner service, the juggling act that conjured a last-minute table when a billionaire showed up on a whim at the hottest restaurant in town. YOUR TABLE IS READY is an uproarious and ultimately endearing look into the personalities and pressures of the dining room in the rough-and-tumble New York City restaurant world of the 1980s and 1990s. Full of tasty bits!" -- Andrew Friedman, author of Chefs, Drugs, and Rock and Roll "What he experienced was an in-house riot of sex, drugs, alcohol and, now and then, excellent cuisine...vivid, detailed, unsparing." -- Alan Richman, James Beard award-winning food journalist "This riveting debut...provides plenty of celebrity encounters, but also reveals how restaurants work.... Readers will gobble up the juicy gossip and decadent stories from a man who has seen it all." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Cecchi-Azzolina's...tales are entertaining and affecting... His honesty in acknowledging the many ills of the industry's past and its continued long journey to legitimacy is enlightening and refreshing...a vivid, candid account of an admirable restaurant career." --Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
647.95092
Synopsis
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, 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.
LC Classification Number
TX910.5.C385A3 2024

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