As the Tables Turn: Biography of a Bistro - Hardcover

Lindey’s, the legendary bistro in Columbus’s historic German Village, has served over half a million meals, welcomed hundreds of thousands of guests, and hosted umpteen parties of every imaginable kind—but it’s the unimaginable number of campy servers, fanatical chefs, and infamous regulars whose antics and expectations, like salt and pepper, have created Lindey’s inimitable flavor.As the Tables Turn is a riotous chronicle of a real-life “Cheers,” a neighborhood bistro opened by “a den mother from Upper Arlington” without a jot of restaurant experience in a “white elephant” location (so wrote the Columbus Dispatch). But Sue Doody’s restaurant endured the years of “too many chefs”; of too few tables and too many regulars expecting their table to be open; of waiters “who served more attitude than food”; of zoning nightmares, parking fiascos, cursed equipment failures, and each new manager’s crazy innovations (a roving accordionist? peacocks in the courtyard? flaming desserts in a jam-packed historic landmark with wooden floors?).Twenty-five years later, Lindey’s remains one of the most popular, inventive, and profitable bistros in the nation, the flagship of the Doody family’s 60 fine-dining establishments.