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An edition of Your Table Is Ready (2022)

Your Table Is Ready

Tales of a New York City Maître D'

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A memoir from the high-end food-services industry in New York City from the 1970s to the early 2020s.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
288

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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
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2022, St. Martin's Press
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First Sentence

"This is the night the food industry salutes itself, it’s our Oscars, our Tonys and our Grammys."

Table of Contents

Contents
Page vii
Introduction
Page xiii
Part I
The James Beard Awards, Civic Opera House, Chicago, May 1, 2017
Page 3
Brooklyn
Page 8
Fran and Lou’s
Page 15
Part II
Back to the City
Page 27
Playwrights Horizons
Page 30
restaurant 101
Page 33
So This Is What It’s Like
Page 41
A Kick in the Dick
Page 46
Althea
Page 51
All Good Things Must Pass
Page 55
Part III
Life on the Water
Page 59
Another World
Page 66
Partners in Servitude
Page 70
How Soft Is an Opening
Page 75
Success
Page 80
And They Came...
Page 84
Mimi
Page 87
Extracurricular Activities
Page 90
The All-Star
Page 97
The River Café
Page 100
The Call
Page 105
It Begins
Page 108
The Family That Dines Together...
Page 111
The Trial
Page 113
“Do Not Fuck Zees Up!”
Page 121
Guilty
Page 127
Jumpers
Page 135
The Door
Page 137
Mr. Debonair
Page 143
The Donald
Page 148
“Just When I Thought I Was Out,They Pull Me Back In!”
Page 152
Acting Proceeds Apace
Page 193
Part IV
Raoul’s
Page 167
The Meet
Page 170
Another Beginning
Page 173
The Raoul's Brothers
Page 177
Service
Page 181
Celebrity
Page 184
Drag
Page 188
Harvard
Page 190
9/11/2001
Page 193
The Mob Redux
Page 195
Crushed
Page 200
Part V
Unwanted
Page 203
Minetta Tavern
Page 206
Hope
Page 213
“Failure Is Simply the Opportunity to Begin Again, This Time more Intelligently”—Henry Ford
Page 216
The Resurrection
Page 221
Bobo
Page 226
Part VI
Starr Ship Coucou
Page 231
Le Chef
Page 233
Starr Man
Page 235
Le Coucou
Page 237
Iron Bottoms
Page 244
Soufflé
Page 247
The Arrival
Page 251
Gone at Last
Page 256
The Shah
Page 264
Fashionistas
Page 270
Mr. James Beard
Page 275
The Awards
Page 277
Epilogue
Page 279
Author's Note
Page 285
Acknowledgments
Page 287

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2022

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
647.95092[B]—dc23/eng/20220810
Library of Congress
TX910.5.C384 A3 2022

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xvi, 288p
Number of pages
288
Weight
516 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL36928787M
ISBN 13
9781250281999

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