The Eternal Question of Food Versus Service
Helen Rosner reviews the restaurant Cecchi’s, operated by the career maître d’ Michael Cecchi-Azzolina in the space that once housed Café Loup.
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Helen Rosner reviews the restaurant Cecchi’s, operated by the career maître d’ Michael Cecchi-Azzolina in the space that once housed Café Loup.
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>> and the fact that the mccanns and their friends spent each evening at the tapas bar may have made them a target. >> reservations were made for them every evening. >> they block-booked a table, the same table by the pool, within the holiday complex. and they kept to a pretty rigid timetable. they would eat, more or less, at the same time each night. >> and, of course, the maitre d' would've been, like, "great, okay," reservation book, scribble at the top, you know, "the mccanns and friends will eat every night at this table." >> there's a belief that maybe the abductor or the person who took...
Previously a Michelin-starred restaurant in Healdsburg, Cyrus has been resurrected in Geyserville after a 10-year hiatus.