

- Published: 2 December 2002
- ISBN: 9780091887872
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $32.99
Hotel Bemelmans

















- Published: 2 December 2002
- ISBN: 9780091887872
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $32.99
The adventures of the original bad boy of the New York restaurant/ hotel underbelly continue. Whether writing about the backstairs misadventures of cooks and waiters or travel to faraway lands, Bemelmans is always funny, insightful and dead on target. No one has ever surpassed the master.
Anthony Bourdain
A complete original
Saturday Review
An artist in both line and words ... with talents of gold
Observer
Very entertaining ... an excellent story-teller
Sunday Times
One reads Bemelmans not as one reads a serious novelist but for the sheer momentary pleasure given by his evocation of atmosphere and mood
Punch
A note of expensive cosmopolitan is brilliantly sustained. There are stories here that could hardly be done better
New Statesman
The singularity of Bemelmans, whether he draws or writes, is his double capacity to see freshly like a child and comment shrewdly like a grown up. The product is an awry wisdom, the wisdom of a reflective innocent who is surprised at nothing and delighted with everything
Clifton Fadiman
Mr Bemelmans is always pricking bubbles, discreetly, appreciatively, out of a sense of duty rather than a desire to shock, and the process is delightful
The Times