Your Table Is Ready takes us into dining rooms we'd never have been able to get into on our own: from Raoul's in SoHo with its louche club vibe to Buzzy O'Keeffe's elegant River Café, from Keith McNally's Minetta Tavern to Nolita's Le Coucou, the most beautiful evening out in New York City with its French-country=auberge-beets-winery look and the most exquisite and enormous stands f flowers, changed every three days.

Cecchi-Azzolina lets us in on the secrets of how restaurants really run (and don't) and how the economics work for owners and overworked staff alike.

Your Table Is Ready is a rollicking, revelatory restaurant-world memoir.