Bobby Flay Quotes

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

If a restaurant kitchen is your office, Nom is for you.

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.

My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

If I wasn't acting, I would want to be in the food and restaurant business. I really love to cook and am fascinated by the art of cooking in general.

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 absolutely love the restaurant industry.

I used to be a chef.

If I was not an actor, I would have been working in a five star hotel as a chef.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant.

The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

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.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.