I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.
The girls, like, in we’ll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.
I try to be as healthy as possible. But the problem for me is that I’m a huge foodie. I mean, I’m literally passionate about food. I love trying new restaurants, new cuisine. It just makes me really happy. So it’s very difficult for me to eat completely healthy.
I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.
I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.
I don’t really have a life outside of movies. But I like to climb mountains and walk the dogs. I like fine wines and good restaurants.
I have a ‘Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State’ poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul’s in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to do with the mundane business of checking what’s on the menu.
My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I’ve always liked food, and I’ve always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.
The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask ‘How does it look?’
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
We don’t own any restaurants, we did once and that’s not something we want to do, because then it’s work.
We must center restaurants, bodegas, and other food businesses as critical food infrastructure for racial and economic justice.
People say to me now, ‘Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.’ Of course, we hated it.
All my life, I’ve had restaurants that were affordable.
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That’s always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
My work spaces are the cookery school and all the restaurant kitchens. I eat in the restaurants a lot.
I’m a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I’ve been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can’t eat often, I know what’s available where.
I’ve been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it’s very deliberate: There’s this idea that somehow it’s more fun if there’s a roar in the room.
I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I’m not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don’t go to Georgetown… The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
I think fine dining is dying out everywhere… but I think there will be – and there has to always be – room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.
St. Louis’ locally owned restaurants are part of the heart and soul of our city. These restaurants have made St. Louis a destination for food lovers from all over the world, while also serving as places where our communities can come together and share a meal.
I always wish for more time at home or at the restaurants or on the shows.
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.
I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.
I can’t think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
At restaurants, I always get a kids’ menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.
I go to the fanciest restaurants in the world and try them out. I like to see these chefs that are wizards do their thing. I like two types of food: cheap fast food – In-N-Out Burger, Taco Bell, stuff like that – or expensive food. Anything in between just bothers me.
I don’t know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.
I absolutely love low-key restaurants.
I’ve gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time… that’s a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.
My second marriage to Jessica just fell apart. It was nothing to do with restaurants.
I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become a working actor. Because I know what it’s like to not have money, I turn down roles if I don’t want to play them.
Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today’s common culture.
There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.
I promised my daughter I’d name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, ‘Dad, what about us?’ I’m gonna have to open four restaurants!
L.A. has such great restaurants, from fancy spots to hole-in-the-wall, there is something for everybody.
I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I’d ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I’d sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
Road trips are where you really build chemistry, spend a lot of time together and go to restaurants together.
I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants – one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes – is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.
I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can’t believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It’s so abstract… isn’t it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?
When my novel ‘Beach Music’ came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
I find five or six restaurants and I just constantly order from them or go there. I don’t change much.
