Dining Experience Quotes

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

I always wanted to be a chef. Flavors and food were always of interest to me, but it was how those things brought friends and family together to celebrate not only the special occasions but everyday life. It has been a blessing that I have been able to pursue a career that creates a product that brings people together.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

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.

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

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

I love The Cheesecake Factory, especially the chicken marsala. I almost always pick that dish; it tastes unbelievable.

In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.

Every meal I eat, I be like, 'Can I get some orange juice?'

If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.