Restaurant Man

By Joe Bastianich

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Restaurant Man (2012) is a memoir by restaurateur Joe Bastianich about growing up in his family's restaurants in Queens and building a business of his own. Bastianich describes working in his parents' kitchens, leaving a job on Wall Street, and opening restaurants in Manhattan, including Babbo with Mario Batali. Along the way he explains the business of running restaurants, from food and wine costs to staff and landlords.

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• Anthony Bourdain: “Book "Restaurant Man" by @Jbastianich a terrific trench level primer on the biz. He knows where all the bodies are buried!”