maître d'hôtel
Example Sentences
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He has even developed a compound honey-chipotle butter, which you can spoon atop the grilled beef, like a Mexican version of maître d’hôtel butter.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2020
Clockwise from bottom: moules frites; shrimp cocktail; hanger steak with maître d’hôtel butter; a green salad with haricots verts and watermelon radish.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 13, 2019
The bride’s father is the maître d’hôtel at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, a French restaurant in New York.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2018
His father Jack was a chef and maître d’hôtel at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and his mother Fran was a waitress there — a background that helped produce Mr. Schneider’s formidable culinary skills.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2017
"Your frients haff gone up-stairs," the German maître d'hôtel said in English.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
