Quotes About Dining

But the real star of the evening is food.

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.

A place deserves somewhere to eat lunch.

I always order soup, dessert, and a sandwich or whatever main course. But then the idea is you have to eat such a small portion of it and bring the rest home.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

My work spaces are the cookery school and all the restaurant kitchens. I eat in the restaurants a lot.

This little bit of uncertainty might make the diner relax and forget the time pressures.

There's nothing more annoying than a man ordering wine at a bar when you're not eating.

I love a little darkness at the table with just enough light from IKEA white candlesticks. Seriously! They look elegant but are simple and unscented and create mood lighting.

History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.

I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall.

He worked too hard, smiled too little and dined as one indifferent to both flavor and fate; he clearly was a hero in need of rescue by a princess.

Right this way, ladies," the maître

As he passed through the dining room, he stopped and took a white daisy from the bouqet his housekeeper had placed in the middle of the table..and put the daisy in the buttonhole of his summer jacket. Then he opened the front door and walked down the steps to Prinsegade, filled with the blind triumph that people sometimes experience when they've conquered their own better judgment.

On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.

Tyrion was exceedingly courteous; he offered his sister the choice portions of every dish, and made certain he ate only what she did. Not that he truly thought she'd poison him, but it never hurt to be careful.

After all, to cultivate clever people is merely a way of dining out, and a priest has no right to go out to dinner in a world full of starving people.

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

The waitress looked a little awkward. "Is all that for both you and your sister?

The entire restaurant moved around the center core of the elevator shaft and what must have been the kitchen space.

and remember what Somerset Maugham said. 'To dine well in England it's necessary to have breakfast three times a day.

Once upon a time there'd been a blue-eyed sea captain dining in here.