For the Love of Restaurants: An Insider's Guide from Daydreams to Opening Night
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For the Love of Restaurants is a practical, candid guide to opening a restaurant, written for cooks, bartenders, and servers who are considering making the leap to ownership. What sets it apart is its argument that the best restaurants are built around talented people and collaborative cultures, not rigid hierarchies and top-down systems.
Weisblatt, a cofounder of the Los Angeles restaurant group Last Word Hospitality, follows the development of its first restaurant, Found Oyster, from idea to opening day. Along the way, he addresses finding and negotiating a lease, raising money, design and construction, developing a menu, hiring a staff, and the countless decisions involved in turning an empty space into a functioning restaurant.
This is less a formula for restaurant success than a candid account of what it takes to get one open. Weisblatt writes about rejection and failed ideas along with the successes, the importance of knowing when to abandon a plan, and the partnerships that make the pressures of ownership sustainable.
Hardcover.
Published on August 11, 2026
