PX This.

**PX This. The Revised Edition and PX This, Too. – Coming in the Spring of 2010**

PX This. (diary of the potted plant), by Abbe Diaz, is the witty, irreverent (star-studded) four-year journal of a struggling commercial-artist/fashion-designer moonlighting as a Maître d’ at some of Manhattan’s most renowned restaurants. It is a lighthearted, humorous, and uniquely insightful romp through the nightly playgrounds of some of New York’s (and Hollywood’s) most glamorous and elite, as viewed from the front podium.

Written and delivered in its raw original diary-format, PX This speaks bluntly and flippantly of illustrious restaurateurs and hundreds of their famous (and not-so-famous) patrons; anyone who has ever walked through the door of one of Manhattan’s “hotspots” may very well find him/herself described within its pages.

Abbe Diaz is a freelance commercial-artist and designer/dressmaker. She has worked in the restaurant/bar industry for nearly 25 years, with numerous stints throughout the New York dining/party scene that include: Limelight, Palladium, Tunnel, Club USA, Coffee Shop, Spy, Cafe Tabac, The Strand (Miami Beach), Mercer Kitchen, Ilo, Lotus, and Theo. She served as the opening maître d’ for The Park, Smith, and 66.

She is proud to have had the opportunity to work under such nightlife arbiters as: Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Brian McNally, Jonathan Morr, Peter Gatien, Eric Goode, and Sean Macpherson.

Diaz gained a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers College, Rutgers University – New Brunswick (Class of ‘90). She was further educated as a non-matriculate Design student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, where she currently resides.

The current continuing “sequel” to PX This can be found on Abbe Diaz’s weblog at www.pxthis.com.

A photograph of Abbe Diaz may be found here, where she was recently nominated for the title of “Most Stylish Blogger.”

- “Restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten is so annoyed by the success of his former Maitre D’ Abbe Diaz’s new tell-all book, he is forcing his employees to sign confidentiality agreements. They were also banned from discussing the [book] at work.” – The New York Post