Quotes About Dining

Some guys find eating face-to-face weirdly intense. But sitting on the same side of the table allows both intermittent physical contact and eye contact.

The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.

In San Francisco, the majority of the restaurants are ingredient-driven. In New York, that is true as well, but there's also a greater focus on technique.

There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.

Waiters in long white aprons

And on the menu, it says "bill of fare". They won't use "menu", you see, because it was French.

Unaccustomed as I was to gracious dining, I realized in a flash that this wasn't it.

For Columella (11, 1, 19) in the first century ad, it was still important to eat in the presence of the servants before the 'Lar of the master and the family hearth'.

stop eating out three times a week

There is something about a martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow martini; I wish I had one at present. There is something about a martini Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth— I think that perhaps it's the gin.

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both.

Los banquetes de Vespasiano eran realmente chapados a la antigua. Las camareras se dejaban la ropa puesta y el emperador jamás envenenaba los alimentos.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Sometimes I go blind. Then I take my right hand out to dinner.

Admittedly, his dinners consisted only of two or three courses, and were prepared by an ex-soldier, but the champagne flowed like water.

A young man who had watched her eating with her fingers offered a set of chopsticks- those sticks for eating that had become so popular. He looked at her suggestively. Instead of blushing, she accepted the chopsticks boldly and continued to walk on, using them to eat noodle and vegetable dishes.

Reed and Hoyer both had the steak the major had raved about, while Allie had a Caesar salad.

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

I adore watching other people in restaurants, beautiful people toying with steak tartare, hoping to be recognized, married couples eating but not talking, lovers eating each other, illicit couples ducking nevously behind the celery and the gristicks every time the door opens, children doing more whining than dining, storing food in the corners of their cheeks like cherubs at the corner of old maps, then suddenly spraying spinach all over the snow-white tablecloth.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.