My Usual Table

A vivid memoir and an “appealing” love letter to great restaurants by a James Beard Award winner and founding editor of Saveur ( Los Angeles Times ). For Colman Andrews, restaurants have been his playground, his theater, his university, his church, his refuge. The establishments he has loved have not only influenced culinary trends at home and abroad, but represent the changing history and culture of food in America and Western Europe. From his usual table, he has watched the growth of Nouvelle