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Your table is ready, tales of a New York City maître d', Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

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Your table is ready, tales of a New York City maître d', Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

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eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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non fiction

Main title

Your table is ready

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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

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tales of a New York City maître d'

Summary

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 at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run. Besides dropping us back into a vanished time, his memoir 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. 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

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