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

informative reflective

2.0

I put this off because of a friend's review, but I was still hopeful. The author is New York through and through, and it doesn't translate to midwestern lives. Not that every book has to relate to every scenario, but it came off as if the author felt that there isn't more than one scenario to consider. Which again, in the context of a memoir, fine, but it was like that in the sections that were written more as tips to the reader. 
Every chapter vacillated between "One had to be drunk or high to get through a single shift," and "I loved every minute of it," and the early resentment toward guests made me dislike the author himself pretty quickly, especially when it was because they didn't surreptitiously hand over extra money just to get a seat.