To celebrate his 25th anniversary of service at the Drake, two hundred regulars gave him a cocktail party; Perle Mesta called him "America's No.
It makes me happy to act as liaison between diners and the chef.
I like to please people so they'll come back again.Schiavon was born in Padova, Italy, and worked as a busboy, waiter, and eventually captain at the Café Savoia (Padova), the Bauer-Grünwald Hotel (Venice), the Plaza Hotel (New York), and others.
In 1942, he became the maître d'hôtel at the Hotel St. Moritz and then joined the Drake.
[2] Steak Diane is often attributed to Schiavon,[3] who was said to have created the dish with Luigi Quaglino at the Plage Restaurant in Ostend, Belgium, and named it after a "beauty of the nineteen-twenties"[2] or perhaps "a reigning lady of the European demimonde in the nineteen twenties".