Quotes About Dining

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

I don't order take-out sushi for the fish. Unless I'm spending a lot of money to eat at a phenomenal sushi restaurant, I eat it for the rice, which is perfectly seasoned with a mixture of salt, sugar, and rice vinegar.

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

Bérénice ne pouvait s'empêcher d'allier à Paris frémissant, inconnu, mystérieux, ce grand garçon silencieux qui n'avait rien fait pour l'importuner, qui lui avait tout juste passé les plats à table, mais dont elle avait une fois rencontré le regard.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas.

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.

when you ask what she does she says: "You know how most families hardly eat together anymore and when they do, they don't eat as healthy as they should? I'm a private chef . . ." The second chef is way more interesting. In fact, as she talks, you start picturing her in your home, cooking meals for your family.

He went down into the ornate maze of bars and shops and dining rooms in the bowels of the hotel and found a grill room that would serve him a steak sandwich and coffee.

That's when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn't even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers.

Like Elizabeth, she enjoyed two "courses" at both dinner and supper

seventy-five Michelin inspectors cover all of Europe and many fewer the rest of the world. They eat out on 240 days a year, file more than 1,000 reports, and must order the maximum number of courses and always clear their plates. To remain anonymous they never return to the same place for several years, and never reveal what they do—even to their parents.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

For 'The scent of yoga' she chose Black Lapsang because its smoky opening always made her think of incense and sacred spaces- which is what she tried to create in her former dining room, but without using joss sticks because she didn't think they went well with deep breathing. She closed her eyes as the perfume developed to reveal its Assam-tea middle note, which made her think immediately of that first yoga breakfast with Shirlee and Maxine and the yogi bears.

everyone had access to good-quality plates, bowls and jugs,

God damn it, Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.

At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast.

voices and scuffling feet. A girl and a boy, he thinks, but he can't be certain. By the sound of it, their mother goes with them. That leaves Vollmer waiting alone in the dining room. Chaim leads the way once the water has come to a boil. With white linen draped over his arms and

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

Eating without conversation is only stoking.