Sirio Maccioni Quotes

If you ever need a good steak, Stringfellows is the place to go in London.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you.

I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.

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.

I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time.

Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.

BLT Prime at Trump National Doral is essential after a long day on the golf course. The popover bread alone is enough to keep me coming back!

When you go to a restaurant, sometimes you want to go to Heston Blumenthal's where you hear the sound of the sea while you're eating one tiny thing for a hundred quid. And then sometimes you just want toast. You just. Want. To eat. Toast. Sometimes you have to be okay with the fact that in terms of comedy, I'm just like, maybe, 'chips and a side.'

Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris.

I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while.

I've actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd's pie.

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.

I'm into the food in Vegas. I'm willing to go to nice restaurants for sushi and stuff like that.

I think the price of the food can totally alter the perception of it. If I know something is expensive and the ambience is fancy, the food just invariably tastes a little better - and I feel like I'm getting away with something. But I'm also bored by most 'fancy' food.

I had one of the best nights of my life in a restaurant called Barclay Prime. It was a steak house that mixed modern with tradition.

I discovered that the world of the finest restaurants was something akin to the world of the Mafia.

I like to eat in five-star hotels and also love street food.

I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.