Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D’ by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

来自一位在纽约市最热门和最需要的餐厅担任前台的职业酒店经理人的厨房机密。

在纽约市最热门的餐厅里，从迷人的人到有权有势的人，从皇室成员到经济拮据的人，每一个想被人看到的人，或者只是想看一看的人，都会到迈克尔-塞奇-阿佐利纳帮助经营的地方。他的电话号码在那些想讨好的人之间传来传去，在那几十年里，餐馆取代了俱乐部，剧院在这个世界上最引人注目、最有活力的城市里成为剧院。

除了让我们回到一个消失的时代，本书还把我们带到了我们自己永远无法进入的地方。苏荷区的Raoul’s，其俱乐部的氛围；Buzzy O’Keefe的随意优雅的River Café（唯一一个外区的机构，足以列入这个名册），从Keith McNally的Minetta Tavern到Nolita的Le Coucou，可能是2018年纽约市最美丽的房间，其法国乡村Auberge-mets-winery的外观和最精致和巨大的花架，每三天更换。

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.

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