Hospitality judgment
Reading rooms, guests, teams, margin, and the small signals that decide whether a night works.
About
A sommelier who learned to code.
Or an operator who never stopped tasting. The order depends on the hour.
I have spent two decades on the floor: opening rooms, building lists, losing and learning from restaurants, advising collectors, and translating wine into decisions people can actually use.
Manifesto
Nostalgia is the new luxury. Pain is the new proof. Taste is the last instrument.
The writing on this site is about the distinction between consuming and tasting, between content and memory, between what machines can generate and what a body has to earn.
After service, I build software. The tools here were written between midnight and two, when the room was finally quiet and the problems were still fresh.
Wine and memory
Bottles as culture, inventory, agriculture, trust, and sometimes the most honest thing at the table.
Machines after service
AI and software as leverage for operators, not theater for people who have never closed a restaurant.