Mario Batali Quotes

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

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

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.

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.

I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

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.

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

I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

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.

If we have meetings, I try to schedule the meetings at different restaurants I want to try - so I always suggest the restaurants.

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.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

I'm really interested in food now. I never used to be. I always used to just eat when I'm hungry, and now it's an experience.

I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.