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“I walked down past the Lycée Henri Quatre and the ancient church of St.-Étienne-du-Mont and the windswept Place du Panthéon and cut in for…

— Ernest Hemingway

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So…

— Todd English

I'm very close to Michel Roux Jr, so my favourite restaurant in the world is Le Gavroche in Mayfair.

— Gregg Wallace

For a meal out, my number one restaurant is Peter's Inn. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. Believe me,…

— John Waters

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival…

— Alexander Skarsgard

I think the place we love the most is the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It's in the 19th arrondissement. It's where I would go…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as…

— Alice Waters

I like to take my time, and Parisians love to take their time - sleeping in, enjoying sunlit terraces, having long dinners.

— Jeanne Damas

It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place…

— Jane Birkin

Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine…

— Roy Andries De Groot

“A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent locals and…

— David Mitchell

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

— Susan Strasberg