Quotes About Restaurant

L'Etoile, in Soho, is the best French restaurant in London.

I'm very close to Michel Roux Jr, so my favourite restaurant in the world is Le Gavroche in Mayfair.

I grew up in the restaurant business, and that's always something I wanted to do.

I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do.

What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.

I like it when you walk in a restaurant and all the walk-ins are down and everything is rotten. That gives me jolts of excitement.

For Russian food, I like the Zhiguli restaurant.

I love seafood.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.

In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.

Forgive me but I've been tutted at in Paris a fair few times and I still don't know if it's because I was wearing Asda jeans or had the temerity to order food in a restaurant.

At Eleven Madison Park, instead of brioche or chocolates, we give our guests a jar of breakfast granola as a gift at the end of a meal. We also make savory granolas.

to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify deathly allergies, hunger level, and time constraints, but then they would unfurl their napkin and surrender".

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

I'd prefer to cook for friends at home than go to a restaurant. My mum is a feeder and I get it from her - I know when I visit her there will be three different types of home-made cake waiting for me.

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.