Restaurants famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
-- Alan King -
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
-- Barton Seaver -
I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.
-- Bobby Flay -
I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.
-- Bobby Flay -
When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
-- Bobby Flay -
I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'
-- Bobby Flay -
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
-- Bobby Flay -
I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.
-- Bradley Cooper -
If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
-- Calvin Trillin -
But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.
-- Carrie Underwood -
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.
-- Catherine Keener -
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
-- Chris Pine -
In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
-- Colonel Sanders -
Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
-- Dana Spiotta -
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
-- David Bowie -
In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.
-- David Millar -
But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.
-- David Rockwell -
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
-- Dick Gregory -
I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
-- Donald Knuth -
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
-- Ed Begley, Jr. -
You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
-- Eddie Izzard -
Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!
-- Elena Kagan -
The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.
-- Elna Baker -
When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.
-- Eric Ripert -
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
-- Ferran Adria -
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.
-- Frederic Raphael -
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people
-- Gay Talese -
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
-- Geoffrey Zakarian -
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
-- George Chakiris -
When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept
-- Graeme Simsion -
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
-- Harry Golden -
When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.
-- Helen Hunt -
Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling
-- Heston Blumenthal -
Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.
-- Hilary Duff -
I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.
-- Hill Harper -
I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff
-- Jason Schwartzman -
When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.
-- Jeffrey Wright -
Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.
-- Jennifer Lee -
I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
-- Jessie J -
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
-- Joel Salatin -
Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
-- John Goodman -
I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
-- John Mayer -
Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.
-- Joy Behar -
The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.
-- Junior Seau -
I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.
-- Juno Temple -
I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.
-- Kitty Kelley -
I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.
-- Langdon Winner -
Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.
-- Linda Evangelista -
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
-- Macaulay Culkin -
I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
-- Malin Akerman -
If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?
-- Marina and the Diamonds -
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
-- Mario Batali -
Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.
-- Mark Morris -
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
-- Martin Scorsese -
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
-- Michael Gambon -
Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.
-- Michael Kurland -
You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.
-- Michael Symon -
If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
-- Mickey Gilley -
Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.
-- Mimi Sheraton -
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.
-- Morey Amsterdam -
We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.
-- Muriel Box -
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.
-- Nicole Polizzi -
Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'
-- Noureen DeWulf -
I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.
-- Olivia Newton-John -
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.
-- Paul Prudhomme -
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
-- Paul Prudhomme -
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
-- Peg Bracken -
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.
-- Peter Brook -
I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
-- Ray Conniff -
I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.
-- Rene Redzepi -
I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.
-- Rita Rudner -
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill
-- Robert Creeley -
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.
-- Robert Irvine -
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
-- Rocco DiSpirito -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
-- Sally Schneider -
You're not even in a restaurant, but... you got served!
-- Santino Marella -
One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.
-- Savannah Guthrie -
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
-- Scott Adams -
It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.
-- Suzanne Somers
