Quotes About Dining

After the third course the entrees had made their appearance; they consisted of pullets a la marechale, fillets of sole with shallot sauce and escalopes of Strasbourg pate.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

If you're a Cabernet Sauvignon loyalist, you might want to consider ordering your steaks rare or medium-rare.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

TV companies always eat, pretty good.

If you go to a restaurant and you go with people you like, your food will always taste really good.

If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.

Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant.

Her favorite place to watch human behavior was a restaurant, for there she could sit quietly in the background while people interacted with food. Each glimpse of the intimate relationship between the person and the plate cried out to her. Cafeterias, tea shops, cafés, pubs, dining cars, a park at noon—anywhere people were eating was fertile ground. To be in the presence of food—appetizing, appalling, it hardly mattered—was to start creating.

Edward suggested we stick all the pictures on the walls of the dining room. "And put pin holes in your nice clean walls," I said. "Don't be barbaric," Edward said. "We'll use sticky putty.

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

pasturing among a herd of cattle and cast about for some means of getting him into his clutches; so he sent him word that he was sacrificing a sheep, and asked if he would do him the honour of dining with him. The Bull accepted the invitation, but, on arriving at the Lion's den, he saw a great array of

The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.

All this and the wines coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, 'Tell me why I shouldn't kill you.'  One motherfuck of an essay question. 

All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, 'Tell me why I shouldn't kill you.'  One motherfuck of an essay question. 

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

I'll order steak with a baked potato on the side, and for dessert I'll have a strawberry sundae with whipped cream.

order steak with a baked potato on the side, and for dessert I'll have a strawberry sundae with whipped cream.