Quotes About Dining

What are you going to have?" he asked. "A nervous breakdown," she muttered and opened her menu. So we'll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.

There were so many items on the menu that Cunard felt obliged to print a separate sheet with suggested combinations, lest one starve from befuddlement.

The men ate seriously.

IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

In 1923 Churchill wrote Clementine 'A Dissertation on Dining Room Chairs' which stated that 'The Dining Room chair has certain very marked requisites.' It needed to be comfortable, have arms and be compact, and the back had to be 'almost perpendicularly over the legs'.37 There also needed to be no fewer than twenty of them. Meals around the circular table in Chartwell's

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room.

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

Understand tipping culture. Whereas Americans tip 15-20% when dining out, most European countries don't tip, as a service charge is typically included in the bill. Make sure you're not over-tipping by doing research before traveling.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.

I like being able to walk or ride my bike to restaurants and do different things.

I really like 'Come Dine With Me' and 'Eating With My Ex.' Both shows have my two favourite things: people and food.

I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.

In the evenings, I like to go for dinners with my close friends.

I love candlelit dinners.

It seemed wrong to look forward to watching a man cut his arm off, and especially weird having dined at a carvery before going to the cinema, but Danny Boyle's '127 Hours' didn't disappoint.

Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.

We're long on conversation in our house. Therefore, I don't like going to restaurants too much. There are too many distractions.

I am not interesting in making money. I go to the most expensive restaurant in Boston to have dinner. It is where billionaires come to eat. Even if I become richer, I will still have to go there to eat. After some time, money doesn't make a difference.