dining quotes

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

If I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

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

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.