Restaurant Quotes
574 Restaurant quotes by 453 unique authors
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I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place…
— Michael Caine
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I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Each city should have its own type of restaurant.
— Marcus Samuelsson
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the…
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my…
— Ryan Holmes
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I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what…
— Joe Bastianich
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Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am…
— Joe Bastianich
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My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took…
— Joe Bastianich
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Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.
— Joe Bastianich
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I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my…
— Joe Bastianich
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At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.
— David Chang
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My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.
— Rick Bayless
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I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.
— Alice Waters
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You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business…
— Tilman J. Fertitta
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Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves…
— Kenneth Cranham
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I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
— Bill Rancic
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One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.
— Elliott Abrams
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I would not take a girl to a club on a Thursday. I would not take her to a really noisy, swanky restaurant.
— Paul Dano
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Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.
— Ming-Na Wen
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When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own…
— Michael Mina
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My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but…
— Michael Mina
Who Wrote These Restaurant Quotes
453 authors contributed a total of 574 Restaurant Quotes, led by these top contributors: