Restaurants Books

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.19 — 375,520 ratings — published 2000
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Sweetbitter Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.33 — 78,773 ratings — published 2016
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Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1) Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.53 — 77,875 ratings — published 2021
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Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,297 ratings — published 2006
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Last Night at the Lobster Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,459 ratings — published 2007
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.55 — 14,547 ratings — published 2008
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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D' Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D' (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.69 — 12,211 ratings — published 2022
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The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.57 — 29,302 ratings — published 2008
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Marrying the Ketchups Marrying the Ketchups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.60 — 16,000 ratings — published 2022
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Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next Hot Spot Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next Hot Spot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.87 — 537 ratings — published 2007
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,332 ratings — published 2017
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Seconds Seconds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.07 — 48,867 ratings — published 2014
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What Happened to Goodbye What Happened to Goodbye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.94 — 90,706 ratings — published 2011
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The Van Gogh Cafe: A Collection Where Anything Can Happen for Kids (Ages 8-12) The Van Gogh Cafe: A Collection Where Anything Can Happen for Kids (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 6 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,355 ratings — published 1995
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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.61 — 30,895 ratings — published 2023
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Maizy Chen's Last Chance Maizy Chen's Last Chance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,213 ratings — published 2022
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In the Kitchen In the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as restaurants)
avg rating 2.77 — 2,157 ratings — published 2009
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Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7) Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,448 ratings — published 2004
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.94 — 48,200 ratings — published 2005
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Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.42 — 33,902 ratings — published 2022
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The Family Chao The Family Chao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.35 — 10,250 ratings — published 2022
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Number One Chinese Restaurant Number One Chinese Restaurant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.00 — 7,119 ratings — published 2018
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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,489 ratings — published 2015
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Restaurant Owners Uncorked: Twenty Owners Share Their Recipes for Success Restaurant Owners Uncorked: Twenty Owners Share Their Recipes for Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.01 — 128 ratings — published 2011
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Bread and Butter Bread and Butter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.12 — 1,535 ratings — published 2014
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See You at Harry's See You at Harry's (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,819 ratings — published 2012
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Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2) Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,797 ratings — published 2004
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The Blue Bistro The Blue Bistro (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,214 ratings — published 2005
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Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.46 — 4,227 ratings — published 2007
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I Regret Almost Everything I Regret Almost Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,237 ratings — published 2025
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Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery, #1) Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,871 ratings — published 2018
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Taste: My Life Through Food Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.19 — 95,993 ratings — published 2021
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Momofuku Milk Bar: A Cookbook Momofuku Milk Bar: A Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,725 ratings — published 2011
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The Cafe by the Sea (Mure, #1) The Cafe by the Sea (Mure, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.86 — 34,239 ratings — published 2017
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Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,669 ratings — published 2017
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There's a Giraffe in My Soup: A Playful Picture Book About Restaurant Surprises for Kids (Ages 4-8) There's a Giraffe in My Soup: A Playful Picture Book About Restaurant Surprises for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.83 — 965 ratings — published 2016
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Over Easy Over Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,739 ratings — published 2014
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The French Laundry Cookbook The French Laundry Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,930 ratings — published 1999
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The Lost Recipe for Happiness The Lost Recipe for Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,837 ratings — published 2008
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The Dinner The Dinner (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.21 — 175,192 ratings — published 2009
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Down and Out in Paris and London Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,776 ratings — published 1933
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.59 — 3,520 ratings — published 2012
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Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1) Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,987 ratings — published 2012
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Momofuku Momofuku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,197 ratings — published 2009
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,238 ratings — published 2010
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Soul Kitchen (Rickey and G-Man, #4) Soul Kitchen (Rickey and G-Man, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,348 ratings — published 2006
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,497 ratings — published 2001
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Empire Falls Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as restaurants)
avg rating 3.95 — 125,977 ratings — published 2001
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K.J. Dell'Antonia
“The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they really love the pie but it's better to go to Frannie's if you have someone in your family who is a picky eater or vegetarian because they will be able to find something that isn't chicken. Chicken Frannie's has fried mozzarella and cheesecake.”
K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

Amor Towles
“But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.”
Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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