Because Our Waiters and Waitresses Look Like They Stepped Out of Paintings

Clockwise from top left, Elena Franklin, 18, from Sascha. Juliette Morvan, 24, from Lovely Day. Cecele Hartmann, 23, from Cafe Habana. Peter Fink, 25, from Lucien.Photo: Martina Hoogland Ivanow

I f New York is the flame to which scores of the world’s most beautiful, multiracial, multiethnic youth are drawn, then the city’s waiter and waitress ranks are its red-hot center. Where else in the world can you look up from your fatty-toro sashimi or cheeseburger and find yourself staring into the eyes of a ruby-lipped Botticelli Venus? Or a porcelain-skinned John Currin? Or a Mapplethorpe subject? Brunch and a gallery crawl? Why bother. It’s redundant.

Because Our Waiters and Waitresses Look Like They […]