Books
The Top Table Restaurant Group recommends a collection of their favourite books on the subject of wine and fine dining. Our recommendations may be purchased from amazon.ca by following the links below. One easy step with no extra charge.
Insatiable - Gael Greene
As the title of her longtime New York magazine column (which ran from 1968 to 2000) suggests, Greene was indeed an "Insatiable Critic" and not just where food was concerned. Her fun memoir spices up the standard chronicle of food supped and wine sipped with breathless descriptions of sexual trysts, travel tales and signature fashions.
Dining Out: Secrets from America’s Leading Critics, Chefs, and Restaurateurs - Andrew Dornenburg
Having written about all it takes to become a chef in Becoming a Chef, and about how those chefs do their work in Culinary Artistry, James Beard Award-winning authors Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page have turned their attention, with Dining Out, to the subject of restaurants and restaurant critics. Restaurant owners, chefs, and critics alike get their turn to discuss the mercurial world of restaurant criticism--is the restaurant critic a valiant consumer advocate or a villainous ruiner of careers and businesses?