In the Restaurant: From Michelin stars to fast food; what eating out tells us about who we are - Softcover

'Glorious stuff along the way... we are unquestionably gripped by the stories... Brilliant. Just bloody brilliant' -- The Times

'A playful story, most entertaining, and wonderfully documented, about the history and the anecdotes around restaurants' --Ferran Adria

'Fascinating, multi-layered, audacious and unique... mixes fact and fancy so compellingly that I read it in a single sitting' -- Russell Norman, author of Polpo

'Brilliantly impressionistic... A delightful celebration of the restaurant' -- Guardian

'All edible life is here - and tasty gossip as the lid is lifted on the bubbling cauldron that is culinary society' --Tatler

'A dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening volume that shows the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all come together... an impressively informative and unreservedly fascinating study' -- Midwest Book Review

'Compulsively readable... Christoph Ribbat's fascinating cultural history of restaurants transcends gastronomy to trace how this 250-year institution developed and its place in society' -- Shelf Awareness

'An entertaining smorgasbord of tasty stories that build into a deeper picture of the places where we eat, from fast food joints and cafés to the temples of gastronomy' -- Hattie Ellis

'A veritable smorgasbord of mouthwatering gastronomic tales... sure to delight everyone from the most knowledgeable foodie to those of us who struggle to boil an egg' --The National

Christoph Ribbat (b. 1968) has held teaching and research positions in Bochum, Boston and Basel, and is now Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn.