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Quotes About Restaurant

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.
~ Ming-Na Wen
Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
~ Bill Bryson
The waitress, seeing how much I had left, asked me if I wanted a doggie bag. 'No thank you,' I said through a thin smile, 'I don't believe I could find a dog that would eat it.
~ Bill Bryson
Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to stumble zombielike out into the night.
~ Bill Bryson
Well, one school of thought says it was actually cool then because the sun was much weaker.' (I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as 'the Chinese restaurant problem' – because we had a dim sun.)
~ Bill Bryson
In the evening I dined in the hotel's restaurant and bar, and afterward sat nursing Mack beers at fifty øre a sip, thinking that surely things would liven up in a minute. It was New Year's Eve, after all. But the bar was like a funeral parlor with a beverage service.
~ Bill Bryson
At Delmonico's, the celebrated New York restaurant, customers could order pumpernickel rye ice cream and asparagus ice cream, among many other unexpected flavors. Manhattan
~ Bill Bryson
Jacqueline is black; that evening, there was one other black person: the restaurant's footman, at the entrance to welcome guests, dressed up in a costume uncomfortably reminiscent of Southern plantation livery.) The
~ Bill Buford
New Rule: If you get to serve me a quarter-head of lettuce with dressing on it, which proves you could have made a salad but chose not to, then I get to pay you with an ATM receipt, which proves I have the money but you're not getting any.
~ Bill Maher
voles make up 85 percent of the diet. (One feature of vole biology that inadvertently helps out hawks is that these rodents mark their territories with urine, which Scandinavian researchers recently discovered reflects ultraviolet light. Hawks can see UV light—and may well use the voles' territorial markings as signposts to the nearest restaurant.)
~ Sy Montgomery
From her first day with us, Kandy took lunch at the counter in Cuddy's.  They claim to serve "homestyle!" food there and, if you grew up in a cold war bunker, it might come pretty close because at Cuddy's they open an awful lot of cans.
~ T.R. Pearson
He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.
~ Ted Bell
They served "Good Food" but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?
~ Julie Kenner
'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that's not the same for large-scale investment companies.
~ Bill Foster
I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'
~ Noureen DeWulf
I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.
~ Rob Reiner
I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
~ Bill Rancic
Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.
~ Jose Andres
I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.
~ Daniel Humm
I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.
~ Borns
My only ambition was to have a restaurant and bring real Italian food to this country. Television was never even part of my idea, so I can say without hesitation that I am living someone else's dream.
~ Gino D'Acampo
I am still around too many Italian people to start speaking like a guy from London. I live in Italy for six months of the year, all the people in my restaurants are Italian and it means that when I speak, it is always with an Italian accent in my head.
~ Gino D'Acampo
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
~ David Bowie