435 Restaurant Quotes for You to Enjoy

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it. Tom Colicchio

First Jobs Restaurant Pretty Had Opening Quick Seafood Ever

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig. Tom Douglas

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I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do. Tom Douglas

Day Every Day Try Every Out Restaurant Restaurants Eat Another

We've become such a restaurant society. Tom Douglas

Become Society Restaurant

Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche. Tom Douglas

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet. Tom Parker Bowles

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I've considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I've done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations. Tom Reiss

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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. Tom Waits

Restaurant Charles Ray Ray Charles Altar Years Worked

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. Travis Kalanick

My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that. Tyler Perry

Family Together Restaurant Never Did Movies Vacation

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts. Victoria Beckham

People Will Nice Find Restaurant Odd Go Theater Jeans

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant. Wentworth Miller

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When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none. William Fichtner

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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. Winona Ryder

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The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show. Wolfgang Puck

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I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table. Wylie Dufresne

We have a funny sort of love/hate relationship with critics because, unfortunately, in the art/commerce dance that we do, they drive people to the restaurant. Regardless of sometimes how well we prepare the food, if people don't know that we're out there, if someone isn't talking about us, you guys aren't coming. Wylie Dufresne

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I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet. Wylie Dufresne

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I get bored very fast, so I would like to do something new. Something like a restaurant is attractive. It does seem to be a very tough job though. Yoko Taro

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In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai restaurant, and it's right next to the 'Great American Hall'. I'm there all the time whenever I'm in town; that's my spot. Yuna

If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago. Yuna

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