Daniel Boulud Quotes

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.

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.

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.

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

I'm a restaurant junkie.

I find myself on Yelp typing in 'the best 'blank' all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.

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.

I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

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.

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.

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

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I don't like the term 'dinner as theater,' because that implies something thespian that I don't want to tie into this, but there are plenty of times that people go out to dinner because they want to have an experience. There are, however, probably many more times that people go out to eat because it's 7 o'clock and it's time to eat.

I'm the farthest thing from a foodie or a food snob. Those people terrify me.

I always say that I would go poor eating my way through New York because I like to try everything.

I love to eat and go out to dinner with friends and family and order all kinds of things. I love dessert.

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 was really impressed with the dining scenes and how amazing the culinary scene is in Nashville.

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.