The Blue Bistro

This book is nothing new, but Becca has been on an Elin kick and had been bugging me to read it for a while now. It is so good! Having grown up on Cape Cod (in an actual fine dining restaurant; our house was attached), I love books about restaurants. And of course the Cape and Nantucket are so similar. It’s a little older (from 2005) but it is wonderful. Adrienne Dealey has spent her professional career bouncing around luxe destinations, working in hotels. After a particularly bad breakup (her ex took all her money), she heads to Nantucket for the summer with one objective: make money. She manages (with no restaurant experience, I didn’t find this part believable) to snag a job as the assistant manager at Nantucket’s fanciest restaurant – during the restaurant’s last summer. She falls hard for the boss/owner Thatcher Smith. But what the heck is going on between his co-owner, Fiona. The two have a special bond. Fiona is one of the most talented (and elusive) chefs on the island and Adrienne can’t crack the code to figure out what is going on between them. It’s such a fun look at working at a restaurant (especially during the summer)… honestly, in reading it, I would have thought Elin had spent much of her life working in restaurants, her research and attention to detail was that good! Order it on Amazon or Bookshop.org.