maître d'hôtel
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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
We were not properly attired, but the maitre d'hotel found us jackets to wear.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
“They are trying to mess with our heads,” Johann Hervé, a 40-year-old maitre d’hotel said.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2015
I just finished eating a steak cooked this way, paired with the "Mock Frites" and maitre d'hotel butter from another Times article, and it made a mighty fine meal.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2014
My room also provided a view of d'Chez Eux -- the auberge where dinner begins with complimentary charcuterie, and a whole Bresse chicken is expertly carved tableside by a friendly English-speaking maitre d'hotel.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2011
The attentions of the maitre d’hotel had opened up a train of thought, and as we drank our coffee I told him about Blaize, the dressmaker.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
