num_pages: 302
description: Probably Bemelmans’ best work and certainly his most famous essays, Hotel Bemelmans brilliantly evokes the kitchens, back passages, dining rooms, and banquet halls of Bemelmans’ years at the Hotel Splendide a thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz. It's a strange, fabulous, and sometimes terrible universe populated by rogues, con-men, geniuses, craftsmen, lunatics, gypsies, tramps, and thieves and it's all here in bitingly funny detail. Twenty-four of the tales are vintage Bemelmans, two have never before been published, and the lot is accompanied by 73 of Bemelmans’ original, charming drawings.
language: English
title: Hotel Bemelmans
titlecomplete: Hotel Bemelmans
genres: Autobiography, Essays, History, Travel, Food, Humor, Biography, Food Writing, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 481
series: Hotel Bemelmans
publisher: The Overlook Press