The Bottomless Cup

A Memoir of Secrets, Restaurants, and Forgiveness

De: Kevin Boehm

Narrado por: Kevin Boehm

An eye-opening, entertaining, and unflinchingly honest memoir that flows like The Tender Bar meets The Bear

James Beard Award–winning restaurateur Kevin Boehm has opened forty restaurants in his thirty-year career. He's worked with hard-core line cooks and celebrity chefs, suffered embarrassing setbacks, and won Michelin stars. Today his Boka Group is one of the most successful restaurant companies in the world.

But Boehm's path was a complicated one. A turbulent family life and a shocking revelation about his father drove him out into the world in search of a home. He found one in restaurants. Amidst other gifted and damaged people, he discovered the magic of hospitality and the thrill of a dining room on the edge of chaos.

The Bottomless Cup is Boehm's vibrant, funny, and frank account of a life in and out of restaurants. This is a memoir about dropping out and finding your place, about opening nights and what comes after, about chefs, partners, guests, and critics. The Bottomless Cup is a story of ambition and adrenaline, of reaching remarkable highs and reckoning with the costs.

©2025 Kevin Boehm (P)2025 Tantor Media

Not a bad listen

This book was recommended to me because I have Bi-Polar, anxiety and depression and was told the author goes in to his struggles with mental illness and how he worked through it on his restaurant journey. While the book was a very interesting listen, out of the 8 hours and 8 minutes, anything to do with his mental illness is only mentioned in passing and takes up about 5 minutes of the entire book.

On a side note, the only thing I would really grump about was that the voice audio would fluctuate from normal tone to really loud and echoey at random times. Almost like they were recorded at different times at different recording booths. This was not enough to ruin the book, but it was annoying when it did it.

Anywho, good book, good story and I would recommend it...

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

This story is beautifully told. The heros journey through the eyes of a midwestern boy making it big in the life he always dreamed of as a restauranteur. All the smiles and nods of success that create the outer persona to the heartbreaking moments that only some have the courage to face. The hero dissolving the avatar and finding his way to the truth within.

Great story!!

Very well written. I will definitely recommend this book. I’m curious what happened to Snoopy? Great job Kevin.

Raw Realities

A wonderful life story of the vagabond we are in the hospitality industry. The phrase "It's in our blood" comes to mind & is an understatement for sure.

Great inspiration

This book had many highs and lows. However it inspired me to reach for the stars and that it’s ok to fall, and fall again on my way up. The importance of family and friendship. To never forget to tell your love ones that you love them. Great Book.