- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restaurant Quotes
Lessons served alongside the meal.
This page gathers reflections on restaurants as places of learning, including one venture that failed but taught more than any success could. Related reading is in Food.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Loden in Vancouver, where I stayed when I was filming 'The Arrow,' is a family-run hotel with a fantastic restaurant, great facilities, and brilliant people.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to go to a restaurant on the beach. And that could be in Miami or that could be in Malibu or Bahamas, Mexico.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven't been able to find something to eat.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020