Here’s the scenario: You are at a very posh bar with clients, friends, or even a spouse. You spot a very chic individual dressed like he — or she — just stepped out of a Vanity Fair fashion shoot. Connoisseur…

“I can’t think of a better way to spend my birthday,” said a young woman at the gorgeously decorated Chef’s table at the Waldorf Hotel. When you think of the Waldorf Hotel you think of luxury – of sterling silverware,…

“I was the only busboy not named Mohammed,” says Phoebe Damrosch in the beginning pages of her lively memoir Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter , recalling her rags-to-riches rise from a hip Williamsburg café to captain at…