Service Included - by Phoebe Damrosch (Paperback)

About the Book

Provocative and highly entertaining, "Service Included" presents the behind-the-scenes memoir from the first female captain at one of New York City's most prestigious restaurants.

From the Back Cover

Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book.

While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly competitive world of fine dining.

Sitting down at a restaurant table will never be the same.

Review Quotes

"Entertaining." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Clear and at times exhilarating prose. It's great entertainment watching professionals at the top of the field spare no eccentricity....Damrosch is best when democratizing this lofty culinary experience." - New York Times Book Review
"Highly entertaining, wryly revealing, and very funny." - Thomas McNamee, author of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
"An experience worth savoring." - Debra Ginsberg, author of Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress