If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be -… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great! — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“What’s the most frightening thing to a child? The pain of being the outsider, of looking ridiculous to others, of being teased or picked… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“I saw how three or four ingredients, as long as they are of the highest and freshest quality, can be combined in a straightforward… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“Imagine… There’s a roast goose in Hong Kong—Mongkok, near the outskirts of the city, the place looks like any other. But you sink your… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let’s face it: I most definitely give a fuck now. I give… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
