Restaurant Reviews Quotes

When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

The biggest thing for me when I travel is finding the best food in every city. I always try to find the best restaurant and take advantage of it because it's cool to go to a lot of different cities and experience a lot of different cultures. So I'm big on the food.

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.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

Instead of cartoons, I was the kid who was watching Food Network, falling asleep to Emeril and Rachael Ray.

I was only 24 years old when a lady called Sabina Sehgal Saikia - the then 'Delhi Times' editor - asked me to host the 'Times Food Guide Awards,' so it was with The 'Times of India' that my career began in this field.

I'm a professional food eater.

Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.

I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

I don't cook. I love to eat. I love to go to the restaurants.

Triple D is all about three things: Food, story and character.

I look up on Yelp and look at what the best breakfast places are, specifically who has the best pancakes in every city.

The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.

Writing about food is my default.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

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

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

I'm a restaurant junkie.

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

I love breakfast. Well, I just like food. I'm properly into my food. It comes from my father. If we go anywhere, we like to look up the best restaurants.