The Restaurant Reviewer, by Nao Hauser
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The Restaurant Reviewer, a love story
Originally published on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, The Restaurant Reviewer, a novel, tells a story of lovers, loss, grieving, and healing, and is dedicated to the People of New York City.
Set in lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, The Restaurant Reviewer focuses on an old family-owned restaurant, Booths, whose devoted chef and proprietor, Matthias Constantine, has collapsed from a stroke. The novel addresses the question facing his family and friends of whether, and how, his restaurant can survive. The answers explore connections to place, memory, and the passage of time.
The story is narrated by Shaylie Drinan, a restaurant reviewer for a major newspaper, who finds herself drawn inexorably into the conflict at Booths through her lover, Damian Constantine, Matthias’s son. The resolution she brings to the story affirms the goodness of food, the meaning of love.
Matthias Constantine has spent his life preparing and refining the fare at his restaurant, a steakhouse on the Bowery that was founded by his immigrant grandfather and is now a clubhouse for City Hall politicians. His only help in the kitchen, and his avid protégé, is Armand Fenner, who was abandoned to the streets as a child and rescued by Matthias.
Years before Matthias collapsed his wife died in a car crash in front of the restaurant. His son, Damian, witnessed the scene of his mother’s death and took off for the West Coast as soon as he could to get away from the memory. He returned a dozen years later to try to leverage the restaurant’s real estate into lucrative investments for himself. In this plan he enlisted Tally Lee, a powerful politician who first came to Booths as a teenager to work as a waitress, befriended a City Council candidate and bore his daughter, and subsequently rose in Manhattan politics to become a Party boss.
The effects of the stroke leave Matthias Constantine weakened but create the conditions for his restaurant’s renewal. The catalyst for its future is the manager Damian hires to assist his father, a disillusioned doctor who wants to switch careers and hopes to take over Booths one day. The doctor, trying to enhance the restaurant’s image and increase its business, unwittingly turns it into the venue that fosters romance between Matthias’s protégé, Fenner, and Tally Lee’s beloved daughter, Benita, a talented singer. By creating beautiful dishes to please Benita, Fenner brings the restaurant to new heights—and threatens those who would destroy and forget it.
The Restaurant Reviewer weaves the fears, conflicts, hopes and ambitions of its characters into an exploration of what endures in the wake of loss.
The Restaurant Reviewer, by Nao Hauser - Amazon Sales Rank: #6640309 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .82" w x 5.25" l, .83 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 360 pages
The Restaurant Reviewer, by Nao Hauser About the Author Nao Hauser is a food/culture/travel journalist who has written about restaurants in New York City and all over the world for Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and many other magazines and newspapers. Her other novels include "Bronoff's Rules" and "An Imperfect Candidate." She lives in Manhattan, where the devastation she witnessed on 9/11 inspired her to express in The Restaurant Reviewer her appreciation of the enduring beauty of New York City, its history, and its depth of humanity.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. "The Restaurant Reviewer" reviewed By Ellen G. Urban Nao Hauser's "The Restaurant Reviewer" opens with a thud, picks itself up, and weaves its way through a fascinating period in recent New York City history, as experienced by a marvelous cast of characters from many walks of life in lower Manhattan.The story revolves around Booth's, an old-time restaurant on The Bowery. Hauser deftly shifts the narrative and timeline from present to past to present again, sharing the backgrounds and experiences of the novel's main characters, as seen through their own eyes and the eyes of others. This makes for a story line that pulls you along in a playful and seductive manner throughout the novel.From the patriarchal Mathias (he of the stroke-induced thud that opens the book) to his handsome, brooding "kalamata-eyed" son Damian and all the other characters who pass through Booth's doors at one time or another, the author paints pictures of hard-working, passionate people striving to do what's right for themselves and for others.One of the beauties of this book is the disparate group of characters who populate the narrative--virtually all coming from widely variant backgrounds yet interacting in colorful and passionate ways. There's the street urchin who evolves into a top-rate chef, the neighborhood scruff who claws her way to the top ranks of Manhattan's political elite, the dermatologist who throws it all away for a constantly shifting dream of making it in the restaurant business--the list goes on. These are characters who are not soon forgotten, which is always a sign of good fiction.Then there's the food. Hauser's own background in the culinary arts and food writing shines through in her steady stream of pitch-perfect depictions--from the primal, aged cuts of steak pan-fried daily at Booth's for the lunch crowd to the rarified tables of Manhattan's latest, trendiest eateries to the bustling, open-air ethnic markets dotting New York's Lower East Side--the city's culinary riches are offered up and praised by an author who truly knows whereof she speaks.This is a great read for those who love food, those who love New York, and those who crave a story well told by a gifted storyteller in the genre of culinary fiction.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I had expected ‘The Restaurant Reviewer’ to be an easy, light read but it’s so much better than ... By good reads I had expected ‘The Restaurant Reviewer’ to be an easy, light read but it’s so much better than that! It has depth, it has soul, and it has some terrific writing!i was totally hooked by this book’s engaging plot and perfectly drawn characters, to the point where i could barely put it down. At times the author’s profound words about the big themes in life (like love and death) moved me to tears with their truthful simplicity. At other times, the author would describe the most mundane of human activities using language so rich with metaphors and creative turns of phrase as to make me smile with delight. Highly recommended!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Restaurant Reviewer By J. Molineux Nao Hauser's novel, The Restaurant Reviewer, reads like a poem or a bittersweet song as the story unfolds and the characters reveal themselves. As is the tendency of all this author's character creations, (recall the cast of the hilarious and enduring Bronoff's Rules), the striking personalities within this novel stick close and affect us long after the reading.I was moved by the author's beautifully woven-in ode to her city, highlighting the cultural and political landscape which frames the characters' journey through a "food life"--a life so full and real, it is almost another mystical character in itself. The power of preparing, eating and interpreting dishes, the art of serving meals, and the business of dining, fuels the characters' connections to each other, to their destinies, and nourishes their revelations to us--the hungry reader!The once destitute Fenner comes to Booths Restaurant; how he eats, heals, and ultimately discovers his gift through his attachment to Matthias and his love for Benita is deeply touching. Also highly enjoyable and satisfying is dermatologist Stanley's personal and professional reboot via his commitment to Booths--both humorous and painful, I was inspired by his self-discovery as he explored the business of food.I loved this book--the intriguing culinary descriptions, the novel's graceful embrace of the struggle for survival and for love, and its final affirmation of the strength of goodness. It felt so big and deep--the reading filled me up like a holiday meal!!
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