Wylie Dufresne Quotes

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats.

What I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to stop and give five minutes to the chef, then I'm down with that. But if the chef has to interrupt every course to tell us how important this new revolution that's happening is, then I'm not so much interested in that.

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

I'm just really into going out to eat and restaurants in general.

In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Tuesday nights are sushi nights, so we go out then.

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.

People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me.

Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out.

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

We've become such a restaurant society.

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

My restaurants are about community and about sharing and about warmth.

Just being able to go out to dinner at the trendiest restaurants - in Italy, I can't do that.

A lot of Americans say the food in England sucks. I don't think the food in England sucks - the food is great - but I've got to say, the Americans have got the dining out experience nailed down.

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

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?

Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.

My family - my brothers and I especially - like dinners out and are really adventurous with food.

I always end up in the kitchen at restaurants. At events or parties, too, I like to see where my food is prepared or made. I like the theater of it.