What other local steakhouse has waiters deftly deboning Dover sole at tableside?
A woman whose very name causes local innkeepers and waiters to gasp and drop their trays.
Restaurants proudly announce their local sourcing, and waiters are happy to tell you the story of your dish, as if a parcel of Northern California had dropped into Basilicata.
They eat their nuptial supper - melon with glace cherries, slabs of beef with overcooked veg, in their room overlooking the bay - while a pair of waiters, local lads, stands by intrusively.
In a second study, Professor Sufi and Atif Mian, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, divided jobs into two categories: Those that depend on local spending, like waiters in restaurants, and those, like factory workers, that can be sustained by spending in other places.
Head to the harbourfront and you'll be met with large, juicy specimens at Restaurante Mira Mar (42 Avenida do Mar) where the friendly atmosphere gives a flavour of the local humour and waiters jovially explain how to eat the fish "properly".
Writer, in trying to find out why the restaurant closed, talked to the owners, Stanley Fuchs & Myron Linz, some of the employees, & the two labor unions involved, the waiters' union, Local 1 (Dining Room Employees Union) & the kitchen workers' union, Local 89 (Chefs, Cooks, Pastry Cooks, & Assistants Union of N.Y).
To have eaten with Joaquin is to have experienced an authentic slice of Madrid, where the best waiters are local institutions whose charm defines their restaurants as much as the food.
"Are they local?" I asked a waiter.
Tim is a chairman of the local Rotary Club, the waiter in a cocktail bar.
