All of the following is true. Only the names and some circumstances have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told to me by Anonymous – a collection of some of the finest chefs, maître d’s, sommeliers, owners and insiders working in the restaurant industry today. However, for legal reasons the stories now take place in a fictitious restaurant with a fictitious owner. Narrated by Anonymous, thousands of hours of experience and knowledge have been compressed into twenty-four. Everything else is as it should be. The chefs shout, the owners smile, and the rich just carry on eating. It’s just another twenty-four hours in one of London’s finest dining establishments.