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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

Your Table Is Ready

Tales of a New York City Maître D'

Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

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English
St Martin's Press
14 March 2023
Autobiography: business & industry; Memoirs; Hospitality industry; Restaurant, cafe & pub guides
"From the elegant 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. Your Table Is Ready drops us back in time in the most vibrant city in the world, taking us places we'd never have been able to get into on our own: Raouls in Soho with its louche club vibe; Buzzy O'Keefe's casually chic River Café (the only outer-borough establishment to make the grade), from Keith McNally's Minetta Tavern to Nolita's Le Coucou, with its French Country Auberge-meets-winery look and the most exquisite stands of eternally fresh flowers.

From his early career serving stars like Tennessee Williams and Dustin Hoffman at La Rousse right through to the last pre-pandemic full houses at LeCouCou, Cecchi-Azzolina 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 demanding patrons and with each other, in a distinctive ecosystem that's somewhere between a George Orwell ""down and out in.."" dungeon and a sleek showman's smoke-and-mirrors palace.

Like Stanley Tucci's ""Big Night"", Your Table Is Ready is a history of the era when maitre d's rather than chefs were the culinary world's stars.

It's a rollicking, raunchy, revelatory memoir."
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Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 243mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   494g
ISBN:   9781250281982
ISBN 10:   1250281989
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

MICHAEL CECCHI-AZZOLINA has been in the restaurant industry for more than thirty-five years. From his early career at La Rousse, he has gone on to run the front of house at New York's most famous and influential restaurants, including The Water Club, The River Cafe, Raoul's, and Le Coucou. He lives in Manhattan.

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

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


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