Max Tucci, author of “The Delmonico Way,” will talk about the trailblazing restaurant, once owned by his family, at a Feb. 21book signing at Orienta in Greenwich.
The reservation was nearly impossible to get. The meal will cost several hundred dollars. The chef is a culinary genius. But in the era of the four-hour, 40-course tasting menu, one key ingredient is missing: any interest in what (or how much) the customer wants to eat.