Outdoor Dining Quotes

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

I'm not keen on the English way of eating outside, on the street. I want food that is clean, not impregnated with toxic fumes.

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

With any free time I have, I'd take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor bite somewhere by the beach and then finish it off by lounging at my pool.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.

Food trucks are an essential part of people's days. They are important to the fabric of feeding people, like hotel chefs cooking breakfasts or for weddings.

There's something so intimate about a picnic with your guy.

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

I'm not a great cook, so I'd rather go out for brunch.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

To me, nothing says summer like enjoying a lobster roll at my favorite spots in the Hamptons.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food.

I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.

I've always been a takeout, order-out guy.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

I love Greek food in the summer.

Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.