"Restaurant Man by [Joe Bastianich is] a terrific trench level primer on the biz."-- Anthony Bourdain "In Restaurant Man...Joe Bastianich has served up a very smart insider's take on the New York City culinary scene as only and erudite and successful member of the secret society can do. The subtext of this love letter to the memory of his father is in itself a magnificent stand-alone dissertation. Joe pulls no punches and tells it exactly like it is in a way that punctuates the many oddities with brilliant black humor and scene-of-the-crime, matter-of-fact perspective. Restaurant Man will resonate with anyone who has come in contact with the world of food, entertainment, and wine or the cottage industry of scripted reality television it has spawned."-- Mario Batali "[Restaurant Man is a] rambunctious memoir....Mr. Bastianich writes in a vigorous, swaggering style....a cross between Anthony Bourdain and Holden Caulfield."-- Moira Hodgson, " The Wall Street Journal" "Enthralling.... Funny, often surprising, and if anything, illuminating.""-- The New York Observer" "A fascinating, brutally candid look at the realities of operating your own eatery.""-- People" "Compulsory reading for anyone who dreams of someday opening an eatery....The lessons [Joe] Bastianich has to offer are important and fundamental."-- Russ Parsons, " LATimes.com" "[Restaurant Man is] a wild ride that ends with a richer, happier, healthier man amazed at his survival, emotionally reconciled with his past and committed to nurturing his family and his culinary legacy.""-- Wine Spectator" "[A] darkly humorous and gossipy memoir...[Joe Bastianich's writing style] is reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential; Medium Raw) and covers some of the same territory.""-- Library Journal" "Joe Bastianich tells it like it is....Restaurant Man is a brutally honest account of his rise from self-proclaimed Quee

JOE BASTIANICH lives in Connecticut. He is an acclaimed restauranteur and judge on MasterChef alongside Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot.