I like to go out to different restaurants in New York. I'm a restaurant junkie. Votes: 4
Amy CarlsonNo one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. Votes: 4
Daniel BouludDuck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceIn an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference. Votes: 3
Ferran AdriaBeing branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling Votes: 3
Heston BlumenthalBeing branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. Votes: 3
Heston BlumenthalDo not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves. Votes: 3
Fran LebowitzInsanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. Votes: 3
Arundhati RoyI don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. Votes: 3
Calvin TrillinToday, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. Votes: 3
Masa TakayamaIf anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. Votes: 3
Anthony BourdainFame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant. Votes: 3
Chris CosentinoIt's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me. Votes: 3
Louis C. K.A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyRead over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant. Votes: 3
Darren L JohnsonIn any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. Votes: 3
Thomas KellerI enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant. Votes: 3
Jamie RedknappI never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant...because I believe in myself. Votes: 3
Hannibal BuressA quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. Votes: 3
Charlie TrotterA child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. Votes: 3
Michael GambonI've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' Votes: 3
John MayerI wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people! Votes: 3
SeungriI wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. Votes: 3
David ChangMemories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. Votes: 3
P. G. WodehouseAcceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine. Votes: 3
Albert BrooksI love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love. Votes: 3
Jacquelyn JablonskiKnow how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. Votes: 3
Marilyn vos SavantI had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey. Votes: 3
Stephen StarrMetaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. Votes: 3
Robert M. PirsigThis Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache. Votes: 3
J. B. SmooveDoes the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? Votes: 3
Rand PaulThe level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before. Votes: 3
Gordon RamsayI find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in. Votes: 3
Walton GogginsI only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant. Votes: 3
Rene RedzepiThe service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost. Votes: 3
Kristen SchaalI'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. Votes: 3
Chuck CloseThe other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Votes: 3
George CarlinBut what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. Votes: 3
David RockwellIf I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant. Votes: 3
Rodney DangerfieldWhen I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin. Votes: 3
Ming-Na WenIt specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant. Votes: 3
Jason AlexanderFocus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area. Votes: 3
Gordon RamsayIsn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? Votes: 3
George CarlinI come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. Votes: 3
Bobby SchillingWe made love in the restaurant booth. It was romantic until our waiter knocked on our windshield. Votes: 3
Jarod KintzI can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring. Votes: 3
Macaulay CulkinWhen I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter." Votes: 3
Henny YoungmanI get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu. Votes: 3
Bindi IrwinI'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me. Votes: 3
Anna KournikovaMy first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. Votes: 3
Rachael RayHow much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant? Votes: 3
Vivian BalakrishnanOne thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' Votes: 3
Alan KingI never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. Votes: 3
Calvin TrillinLike going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall. Votes: 3
Hilary DuffI'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant. Votes: 3
Louis TomlinsonMy sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire. Votes: 3
Mary-Louise ParkerGive up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there. Votes: 3
Mark SissonI learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. Votes: 3
Wolfgang PuckI learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. Votes: 3
Wolfgang PuckI wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house. Votes: 3
Alice WatersThere are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. Votes: 3
Ingrid BergmanWhen I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there. Votes: 3
Sylvester StalloneI don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one. Votes: 3
Paul BeattyYou cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role. Votes: 3
Danny MeyerAs long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. Votes: 3
Bob DylanIf a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night... Votes: 3
Robert SietsemaIf we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. Votes: 3
Bill de BlasioI was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver. Votes: 3
Tim VineI ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. Votes: 3
Esther WilliamsI am officially Jewish, but Iâm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. Votes: 3
A. J. JacobsDr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant. Votes: 3
Khaled HosseiniI canât go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. Votes: 3
Donald KnuthBeing a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star... Votes: 3
Meg WolitzerBoth my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. Votes: 3
Ming-Na WenAlthough a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong. Votes: 1 Dana Spiotta
I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love. Votes: 4 Jacquelyn Jablonski
I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments. Votes: 1 Hill Harper
Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant. Votes: 3 Bobby Flay
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. Votes: 3 Rocco DiSpirito
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. Votes: 5 David Rockwell
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. Votes: 1 Carl Karcher
Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods. Votes: 3 Joel Fuhrman
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet. Votes: 1 Steve Tisch
Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. Votes: 3 Anthony Bourdain
Every month, about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone, and so, you know, by that rationale, if you just ate your menu that was made from organic, local products, you could eliminate that paper waste. Votes: 4 Homaro Cantu
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king. Votes: 4 Criss Jami
For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle. Votes: 2 Kevin McCarthy
I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise. Votes: 3 Chris Hayes
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. Votes: 3 Charlie Trotter