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Restaurant Babylon

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Description for Restaurant Babylon Paperback. What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert? This book deals with the tricks of the food trade and what really makes this GBP90 billion a year industry tick. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BT; KNDF; KNSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.

What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert?

Welcome to the restaurant business, where the hours are punishing, the conditions are brutal and the Chef's Special has been languishing at the back of the fridge for the past three days.
This is an industry plagued with obsessives. Why else do some chefs drive themselves crazy in pursuit of elusive Michelin stars, when in reality all they're doing ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552167123
SKU
V9780552167123
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About Imogen Edwards-Jones
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the bestselling author of Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon, Fashion Babylon, Beach Babylon, Pop Babylon, Wedding Babylon and Hospital Babylon as well as novels such as My Canape Hell and Shagpile. She lives in west London with her husband and their two young children.

Reviews for Restaurant Babylon
A glorious behind-the-scenes account of London's debauched hospitality business.
Observer
Shocking and at times jaw-dropping, this is a must-read for any Babylon fans or those who like eating out.




Heat
Edwards-Jones gets away with stories far more bizarre than anything you would believe in a novel. Sometimes you laugh out loud at the outrageousness of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Restaurant Babylon


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