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The Waiter
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ISBN: 9780857525857
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Welcome to The Hills, Oslo’s most esteemed restaurant, an institution stewed in tradition and clinging to the faded grandeur of old Europe. A neurotic waiter tends to the desires of his regular – and irregular – clientele. Aristocrats and artistes, wealthy widows and roguish entrepreneurs, he observes all their dramas with a wit as sharp as a filleting knife. At table ten sits the impeccable Mr Graham, the most demanding of them all, impatiently awaiting a special guest. When at last she arrives – young, beautiful, mysterious – she will prove a challenging new flavour, throwing into disarray our waiter’s nerves, and the delicately balanced ingredients of the room. Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but also for anyone who spends time in restaurants, on either side of the service. Read More
Magazine article
The narrator is a senior waiter at The Hills, a restaurant highly regarded by the Oslo elite. He tells us that the premises were originally set up by the Hill family from England as an outfitter’s shop in 1846. Everything was going well until Benjamin Hill, a legendary but tragic dandy, gambled heavily and the business had to be sold to pa... Read on >
