Quotes About Dining

Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a snob. I don't have a problem with Applebee's per se. But I think we can all agree, as a civilized society, that lives shouldn't change there.

When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine. When you ask two, the second best will do.

I like to look nice when I go to see His Majesty, the Burger King.

Jack stood in the dining room just outside the batwing doors leading into the Colorado Lounge, his head cocked, listening. He was smiling faintly. Around him, he could hear the Overlook Hotel coming to life. It

The wooing, the winning, the dining, the romance—it's all part of his here-and-now philosophy. He doesn't feel reluctant about sharing intimacies with a stranger because he isn't thinking of anything beyond selling himself.

Peppier n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.

The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

We want to replace all the T.G.I. Friday's, Applebee's - at a price point that is arguably even lower than those guys.

No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine.

There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.

A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

They were sitting at the enormous marble bar at La Sirena, an Italian restaurant in Chelsea's famed Maritime Hotel. The place was somehow sleek and warm, modern yet with a definitive sixties vibe. The border between dining inside and dining alfresco was almost nonexistent. Myron made a mental note to take Terese here pronto. There

I'm driving home to change, Win said. Then I'm dining at Merion. Mainliners never ate; they dined. Care to join me?

Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there.

My dining and entertainment philosophy - I can boil it down to 'the three C's - I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.

But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we "ate out.

Gruffly, he cleared his throat. 'Don't take this as a blanket approval of your tactics, Sarah, but if I'm ever unfortunate enough to get in trouble with the law, I want you to represent me.' Before I could respond to this startling and totally out-of-the-blue compliment, he opened the door and was nudging me inside. I caught a quick glance of his face before he walked off toward the dining room. He was actually blushing!