For the Love of Restaurants: An Insider's Guide from Daydreams to Opening Night

A playful, soup-to-nuts guide to creating a restaurant, and a love letter to those who make the struggle palatable, the resilience possible, and the journey more fun—restaurant people.

There is no secret ingredient to opening a successful restaurant—in this business everything matters.

It’s one thing to work in an established restaurant and a whole other beautiful challenge to turn an empty room with exposed plumbing and unpainted drywall into a stage for the complicated performance of prepp...