maître d'hôtel
Example Sentences
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He has even developed a compound honey-chipotle butter, which you can spoon atop the grilled beef, like a Mexican version of maître d’hôtel butter.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2020
His father Jack was a chef and maître d’hôtel at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and his mother Fran was a waitress there — a background that helped produce Mr. Schneider’s formidable culinary skills.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2017
—Dimitrov is the maître d’hôtel at Tower Bar and at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2016
Until recently, the restaurants at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel included Oscar’s Brasserie, an unfussy breakfast-and-lunch place named for Oscar Tschirky, a longtime maître d’hôtel who is credited with the invention of the Waldorf salad.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2015
"Your frients haff gone up-stairs," the German maître d'hôtel said in English.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
