Part memoir, part city guide, this gossipy history follows a well known food critic through restaurants' births, growths, and occasional failures. Updated to include today's rising culinary stars, the narrative traces how the restaurant business became show business and how the tycoons, artists, dilettantes, journeymen cooks, gastronomical junkies, and ambitious entrepreneurs transformed Toronto into a food-lovers haven. Fortunes are made and lost, reputations built and squandered--and this story tells it all from the head table's perspective.