[3] After moving to New York in 2006, Danler worked at Union Square Cafe for a year and earned an MFA in creative writing at the New School.
[9] A review in The New Yorker said that "Danler deftly captures the unique power of hierarchy in the restaurant world, the role of drug and alcohol abuse, and the sense of borrowed grandeur that pervades the serving scene.
"[10] A television adaptation (Sweetbitter), created by Danler, Stuart Zicherman, and Plan B Entertainment,[11] premiered on Starz in 2018[12] and aired for two seasons.
"[1] Marion Winik, writing for The Washington Post, gave Stray a mixed review with the comment: "Despite the author’s skills at observation and phrasemaking, the narrative manages to ping-pong between the two most dangerous possibilities in memoir: boring on one side, TMI on the other.
"[16] A review from the New Yorker noted that the memoir is “unsparing” but “tempered with the tenderness of Danler’s language, and with her willingness to reserve her harshest rebukes for herself.”[17]