Quotes About Hospitality

I'm liking coming to nice hotels, getting nice clothes sent to me - I got a pair of free boots the other day! It definitely makes a change from getting the 243 bus from Tottenham.

People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

I create homes that feel like a home - it could be a palace or a mansion - but each one has a comfortable feeling.

I definitely have my Palestinian gene. I love to play host.

When I am in India, I feel pampered. However, when I am In Georgia, I am on my own, as I have to cook and do things all by myself. However, that gives me an independent feeling.

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

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.

The guest to me was always paramount.

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

A place I've been a fair few times is the Lake District. It has the edge on Paris in that it's ace. It's the sort of place I show off to my Aussie mates like I made it or own it or something. I love that I know where to park, where there's a choice of 30 ice cream flavours, where you can fall asleep on the grass while your friends go for a walk.

I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'

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.

I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.

I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

I throw 14 parties a week.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.

I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.

My internship with Oberoi hotels and later working with the ITC group in Jaipur helped me get a better exposure; I got to meet expatriates and get acquainted with people from different parts of the country.