The Bottomless Cup: A Memoir of Secrets, Restaurants, and Forgiveness

For a limited time, we have copies signed by Kevin Boehm.

Long before he co-founded one of the most celebrated restaurant groups in the U.S., Kevin Boehm had to figure out who he was. That process began with a revelation just after high school: that the man he’d always believed was his father was not. Untethered from a version of family he’d taken for granted, Boehm left home and began chasing a childhood dream: running a restaurant.

The Bottomless Cup is not a highlight reel of professional success, though there are plenty of notable achievements here: forty restaurants, a James Beard Award, multiple Michelin stars. What sets the book apart is its willingness to linger in the uncertain spaces between those milestones—the years of searching, missteps, ambition, and emotional distance that shaped Boehm’s idea of what hospitality could mean, and what kind of life it could help him build.

The writing is frank and sometimes funny, with a pace that reflects both the adrenaline of the dining room and the longer arc of personal reckoning. Readers interested in the restaurant world will find plenty of insider detail, but this is also a book about identity, chosen family, and what it takes to stay open—to risk vulnerability—on the other side of success.

Hardcover. Black-and-white photographs throughout.