This book was fun. The author casts himself as a Forrest Gump-type, placing himself in the middle of the biggest moments in restaurants in NYC, and for the most part, you feel like he’s telling you his real story as he remembers it, even when he’s dropping big names. He also goes pretty deep on his personal life, which sometimes felt strangely out of order with the rest of the story (he jumps hard from 2008 to 9/11/2001 at one point), but did add a lot to deepen a book which was laden with anecdotes from his days dealing with huge personalities.