Restaurant Reading - Including Cafés, Doughnut Shops, and Other Eateries

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 5:12pm

Grab one of these restaurant reads and settle in at your favorite restaurant, cafe, or tea room for a delicious read. Provided by the staff at the West University Branch Library.

 
Patrice Adcroft. Every Day Doughnuts
A baker's dozen of delightful chapters detailing the every day doings of the workers and customers at a Pennsylvania doughnut shop.
Judy Fong Bates. Midnight at the Dragon Café
Family secrets and foreign customs collide when a Chinese family moves to a small Ontario town to operate a diner.
Maeve Binchy. Quentins
A documentary filmmaker collects stories from the devotees of a beloved Dublin restaurant, healing her recent heartbreak in the process.
Fannie Flagg. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Two women run a café which becomes the center of small Alabama town during the Great Depression and years after. Recipes included.
Patricia Gaffney. Flight Lessons
Anna Catalano returns home to Maryland's Eastern shore to work in her family's Italian restaurant, a move that helps her reconcile the past.
Idwal Jones. High Bonnet: a Novel of Epicurean Adventures
Jean-Marie Gallos works his way up from apprentice saucier to gourmet chef of a renowned French restaurant.
Anne Lamott. Joe Jones
Humor and camaraderie rule in a California waterfront café, helping Louise, the luscious cook, get over her break-up with the incorrigible Joe Jones.
Billie Letts. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
Business picks up at a rundown café in eastern Oklahoma when a Crow Indian drifter and a Vietnamese refugee sign on as new employees.
Hannah McCouch. Girl Cook
A twenty-eight-year-old female Cordon Bleu graduate struggles for acceptance and recognition in the chauvinistic world of Manhattan cuisine.
Gloria Naylor. Bailey's Café
There are no menus, and the soul food is plain, but the customers at Bailey's Café nourish more than their stomachs.
Melany Neilson. The Persia Café
Dreaming that her culinary skills will be her ticket out of small town Mississippi, café cook Fanny Leary's life changes course when she accidentally stumbles upon the body of a murdered black boy.
Sharon Owens. The Tea House on Mulberry Street
In Belfast, Ireland, a café run by a workaholic chef and his daydreaming wife is common ground for an assortment of desperate, yet loveable characters.
Helene Wiggin. Dancing at the Victory Café
Belle Morton makes the best of wartime rations in her café in Lichfield, England during WWII, creating a place where white and black American GIs meet and mingle with the Brits. Recipes included.
Sheila Williams. Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
A one way bus ticket takes an African American woman to the small town of Paper Moon, Montana, where she is offered a job as cook in a diner.