Dining Disasters and a Michelin-Starred Nightmare: True Restaurant Stories

This week, we share stories from the world of fine dining. Maître
d' Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has encounters with mobsters, fainting
celebrities and unruly guests at New York’s top restaurants and
reveals the secrets to great service. Writer Geraldine DeRuiter
sits down for the world’s strangest Michelin-starred meal: She
eats rancid cheese, slurps foam out of a ceramic mouth and is
forced to watch the kitchen staff play extreme sports. Plus,
historian Rebecca Spang uncovers the invention of the restaurant,
Sara Moulton reveals the most baffling thing she ever witnessed
in her career as a chef, and actors tell us how waiting tables
unexpectedly helped their theater careers. (Originally aired June
22nd, 2023.)


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