In India, the perception of a woman in a restaurant kitchen was that she wouldn’t make it.
I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body – however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.
I avoid conflict – like, any conflict – at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I’ll just eat it anyway because I don’t want to make an issue.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
I think that Gordon Ramsay is maybe one of the most entertaining people ever on television. And I would love to pretend to be Gordon Ramsay and walk into a restaurant uninvited and attempt to make them change their menu. It’s just a personal fantasy of mine.
One of the things I love about New York is that it’s one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That’s where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
I knew that I wanted to create a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood that celebrated not just music or Hollywood, but who we were as people of color, as Caribbean, African, Cajun and Southern people.
Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don’t have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something – high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn’t have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.
If I want to go out to a restaurant with some friends, I’m more than happy that we go in under the radar, have a little evening on our own.
In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.
There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.
I don’t even know what TV star means. I know there’s a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.
I think every chef should have a food truck. It’s a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
As far as memories go, I was around for the very first WrestleMania. I was a young kid upstairs at my uncle’s restaurant in a change room or staff room watching it, I think, illegally, on a black and white television.
Doesn’t matter if you’re playing football, running track or managing a restaurant, you want to be the best at what you do in life.
When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.
You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It’s just a catastrophe.
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 bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.
I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.
People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it’s like a five-minute conversation. The short answer is, ‘We’re creating community through food.’ That’s the big idea we had, the product we’re exporting. And it has paid off.
While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women – who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs – are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.
‘Restaurant Man’ is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.
I want to open a restaurant.
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 it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.
I do think that fashion may end up being the ‘killer app’ for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because it’s not simply task-oriented – like finding a restaurant or where your friend is currently lounging about – but experience-oriented. It becomes part of your life.
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about it, most people with autism use a script in their daily life to communicate in social situations, like at a restaurant, or you know, with a day-to-day conversation.
When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.
When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome… and then, of course, you spoke.
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 personality – your job is to grow it.
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
I have started my own restaurant.
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people’s plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.
At the restaurant we cook with a respect to the native culture of Australia whilst still respecting and embracing settlement.
All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.
An actor’s life is abnormal! It feels like I’m being watched all the time, whether I’m at a restaurant, gym, or anywhere. I sometimes feel I don’t want to be looked at.
One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I’m pretty quick at it.
I can’t imagine leaving the restaurant. It’s hard for me to separate my life from my work; I’m really thinking about what we’re doing every day.
Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
Rod’s always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we’re at a restaurant and I’m in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he’s trailing behind, looking like my little child!
Actually, I’d really love to do something in Bali, up in the mountains. A little restaurant with that scenery would be beautiful.
If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant.
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.
When I first auditioned for ‘Stranger Things,’ I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant, doing commercials and bit parts on shows. I honestly would have been happy booking anything.
I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
When I go see a basketball game, I’m always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
My restaurant, Tex Wasabi’s, we have a whole ‘Minute to Win It’ challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn’t even aired and they’re already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it’s going to take over.
