In a world not yet populated by celebrity chefs (Q.: Who was the chef at 150 Wooster?), these host-proprietors were the public faces of their businesses, the reason people came to dinner, the personality of their rooms.
Steve Spellman, son of a former congresswoman, Gladys Noon Spellman, and a student of Papas's, purchased the shop in the mid-1960s and remained as proprietor, host, guru, seller and sage to many musicians, including Prince, James Taylor, Charlie Byrd, Sam the Sham, the Strokes, the Gypsy Kings and Steven Stills.
He is the proprietor and host, not the chef, and he likes it: "It's like a drug: if people have a bad day, and the restaurant helps make them happier -- and they pay for that -- and every week they come back, it's really satisfying.
They include the children (now adults) she was a nanny for, the people who hired her (including TV host Phil Donahue), even the proprietor of a Chicago antiques shop where Maier was a regular customer and "a real pain in the ass".
After 20-odd years of toiling in relative obscurity from his radio studio in Austin, Texas, the far-right host of "The Alex Jones Show" and proprietor of the website Infowars.com, is basking in an ever-brightening national spotlight, thanks in no small part to his association with President Donald Trump.
Ranald Macdonald, the restaurant's proprietor played the genial host, while publisher Andrew Neil was MC for the awards ceremony.
It would be wise to assume that Russia has much more on the Clintons than has been revealed via Wikileaks and its famous proprietor, onetime Russia Today host Julian Assange.
The host was Mr. Wong, Hoi Sang's proprietor, who declined to tell the contents of the dishes set before the guests; he said they were delicacies that were not on the regular menu.
Much of it was collected in the flea markets of Paris by the Casablanca-born proprietor, Jean-Claude Dulac, gregarious host to lively gatherings of the young and hip, locals and tourists alike.
Proprietors of the Animazing Gallery recently hosted a special evening that was dedicated to helping wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan by providing them with service dogs.
And its proprietor, Anne-Sophie Bisschop, is a host par excellence.
