Yummy! Restaurant and Bar Design

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Former restaurant critic Brian Duff examines the restau...

Chapter 2 examines the restaurant as a business. It offers an explanation for the dramatically contrasting fortunes of London’s restaurants, a sector of the economy characterized b...

This chapter presents the book’s broader arguments and isolates the specific ways in which the study makes a critical intervention in the historiography of modern Britain. It also ...

The epilogue begins with consideration of the way the nineteenth-century London restaurant features in individual and collective memory. It insists that such memories were not excl...

Chapter 6 offers a sketch of those who ate out in London. It emphasizes the diversity of diners, defined in terms of both social class and, critically, gender. Here diners are mapp...

Chapter 1 offers a typology and geographical survey of the Victorian and Edwardian London restaurant. It opens with a quantitative overview, using Kelly’s Post Office Directories, ...

Chapter 3 focuses on the waiter, exploring the reality behind his representation in popular culture as marginal, disenchanted, and melancholy. While real-life waiters were often ke...

“The book is beautifully written … It provides the perfect blend of personal stories told with good humour and searing honesty, aimed not only at would be/ new/ seasoned barrister ...