Quotes About Diners

Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels of Reno and its environs.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play.... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.

I miss Jersey so much; I'm really connected to it. I love the big malls, the diners.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

For an instant he felt nettled at the irony, the lightest shadow of a snub, with which she had met his decisiveness, and at the way he had risen to her quick glance. But it was only an infinitesimal clink of foils and as the bowing maitre d'hotel led them through the crowded room, it was forgotten as Bond in her wake watched the heads of the diners turn to look at her.

Sociologists paint American Christians as restless people who come to church for the same reasons people once went to diners: for someone to serve us who knows our name, for a filling stew that reminds us of home and makes us feel loved, even while it does a number on our spiritual cholesterol.13

I wouldn't mind working in restaurants again because you build up a relationship with the customers. I'm really inspired by the mundane - it's often the most ordinary-looking people who have the best stories - and you can watch diners and study their idiosyncrasies without them being aware of it.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consumers, diners, and pancake houses, which fried it up along with eggs for breakfast.

Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.

Jay had learned that in Japan, sushi chefs might put a touch of wasabi inside a nigiri, using a larger dab of wasabi with fatty fish, and a smaller one with lean. But they never served extra wasabi on the side. They would serve a pinch on the side with sashimi—plain raw fish, without rice. But diners certainly weren't supposed to mix the wasabi into their soy sauce and apply it indiscriminately.

What strikes me as people in diners rail at each other at the counter when before they ate in silence is not how imperiled they feel, but how safe. Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. But

When I go skiing in New England, I usually wake up early and drive up to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine to make it in time for chairlift opening. That means leaving early and getting breakfast at one of the little quaint diners up in the mountains.

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

Nothing is better than eating late night meals at all-night diners. Your self-respect goes right in the crapper.

The other diners studied him with the polite frozen smiles the English use for threatening behaviour.

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

The multitude of options American diners face on restaurant menus isn't just a smart business decision. It deliberately avoids offending all tastes, palates and dietary restrictions.

In the Hilton in Scottsdale, we fell back on any opportunity for a wager – I recall David riding a motorbike through our hotel restaurant for one particular bet. The diners either thought that this was normal, or that he was packing a gun, because they completely ignored him.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.