Artist Quote by Anthony Bourdain

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

— Joe Bastianich

“Every restaurant is a theater, and the truly great ones allow us to indulge in the fantasy that we are rich and powerful. When…

— Ruth Reichl

I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when…

— Anne Burrell

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a…

— Charlie Trotter

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I…

— Drew Barrymore

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to…

— Curtis Stone

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

— Ted Allen

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…

— Ferran Adria

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

— Warner LeRoy

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people…

— Fran Lebowitz

There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a…

— Joe Bastianich

Most restaurant people work much harder physically, on a daily basis, than most entertainers. Though most people in entertainment complain more.

— Philip Rosenthal