Eric Ripert Quotes

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.

Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.

I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

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 don't think I've actually ever had cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. I've had the Steak Diane. I don't like cheesecake!

K. Michelle was the worst guest for me.

No one wants to be lectured at.

While you can have the cult of the celebrity chef, the food still must taste good.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.