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Cafe Bentley
Humor is on the menu at Cafe Bentley along with a generous serving of erotic adventure and restaurant shenanigans. The setting is New York City in the summer of 1965 and twenty-two year old Lionel Sachet has left his home in Grenoble, France to begin a new life in the city of his dreams.
Scott, the restaurant manager, has his own plans--to steal as much money as he can--and is fearful that Lionel will expose him. Mike, the chef, has given up drinking Remy Stingers and switched to Phenobarbital with disastrous result. Cindy and Emily, bi-sexual roommates, invite Lionel to their apartment for a ménage a trois with the idea of grooming him for an adult film they want to make at a nearby health club. The temptations of free love conflict with Lionel's morals, especially when he meets Janet, a beautiful Eurasian woman.
Lionel knows he has to learn fast if he is to survive. His ability to communicate the sometimes complicated art of French wine to Cafe Bentley's customers helps him succeed. Later, when three-star chef, Francois, joins Lionel, the two Frenchmen introduce a new type of restaurant cuisine in a charity even called the Taste of New York with amazing consequences.
Scott, the restaurant manager, has his own plans--to steal as much money as he can--and is fearful that Lionel will expose him. Mike, the chef, has given up drinking Remy Stingers and switched to Phenobarbital with disastrous result. Cindy and Emily, bi-sexual roommates, invite Lionel to their apartment for a ménage a trois with the idea of grooming him for an adult film they want to make at a nearby health club. The temptations of free love conflict with Lionel's morals, especially when he meets Janet, a beautiful Eurasian woman.
Lionel knows he has to learn fast if he is to survive. His ability to communicate the sometimes complicated art of French wine to Cafe Bentley's customers helps him succeed. Later, when three-star chef, Francois, joins Lionel, the two Frenchmen introduce a new type of restaurant cuisine in a charity even called the Taste of New York with amazing consequences.
353 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2011
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June 1, 2016
Mesmerizing
Exhilarating, magnificent. The author has an intriguing way to engage the reader in a way that makes it hard to put the book down. Great book to learn about New York and the restaurant business in the sixties.
Exhilarating, magnificent. The author has an intriguing way to engage the reader in a way that makes it hard to put the book down. Great book to learn about New York and the restaurant business in the sixties.
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