Customer Quote by John Lanchester

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

— Rene Redzepi

The battle between server and servee is as ancient as it is well disguised, and it follows, therefore, that waiters have developed a private…

— Susie Dent

Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in…

— Richard Eyre

Customers are more friendly when they've had a meal.

— Tom Douglas

“What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!”

— Margaret Atwood

I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make…

— Daniel Boulud

Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard…

— Mark Kurlansky

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that…

— Larry McMurtry

I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…

— Bill Bryson

“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”

— Philippa Gregory

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching…

— David Chang