Christoff Restaurant Quotes

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant. ~ Eddie Huang

It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? ~ Rand Paul

I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good? ~ David Chang

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. ~ Mickey Gilley

In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. ~ Ferran Adria

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant. ~ Rene Redzepi

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. ~ David Rockwell

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. ~ Rick Bayless

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long. ~ David Chang

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human. ~ Michael Mina

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees. ~ Michael Mina

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not. ~ Steve Albini

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. ~ Daniel Boulud

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. ~ Paul Prudhomme

I won't hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that's the honest truth. I don't think you know how it is until you've worked in a restaurant. ~ Casey Neistat

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant. ~ Danny Meyer

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. ~ Nicole Polizzi

During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant. ~ Danny Meyer

A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this, because it's my theory that owning a restaurant is the kind of universal fantasy everyone ought to grow out of, sooner rather than later, or else you will be stuck with the restaurant. There are many problems that come with owning a restaurant, not the least of which is that you have to eat there all the time. Giving up the fantasy that you want to own a restaurant is probably the last Piaget stage. ~ Nora Ephron

Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic. ~ Simon McBurney

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined. ~ Brigitte Bardot

We've become such a restaurant society. ~ Tom Douglas

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. ~ Heston Blumenthal

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. ~ Marian Burros

I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments. ~ Hill Harper

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup. ~ Ben Okri

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. ~ Eric Ripert

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu. ~ Rob Reiner

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant. ~ Bobby Flay

I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. ~ Tom Douglas

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. ~ Helen Rowland

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms. ~ Bee Wilson

The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want. ~ Tyra Banks

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque. ~ Neil Patrick Harris

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. ~ Elliott Abrams

When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience. ~ Jochen Zeitz

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York. ~ Jason Alexander

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food. ~ Joe Bastianich

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently. ~ Joe Bastianich

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. ~ Esther Williams

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch. ~ Larry David

I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country. ~ Jose Andres

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. ~ Charlie Trotter

Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone. ~ Danny Meyer

Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner. ~ Richie Norton

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life. ~ Robin McKinley

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself. ~ Eric Ripert

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. ~ Bobby Schilling

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant. ~ Louis Tomlinson

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. ~ Chuck Close

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house. ~ Alice Waters

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. ~ S. Truett Cathy

I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar. ~ Malin Akerman

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. ~ Anne Tyler

I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason. ~ Joel Robuchon

Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. ~ Eric Ripert

Our latest research shows that in every city across the United States in which we conducted surveys with restaurant workers, the restaurants that mistreated their workers were more likely to engage in unsafe food-handling practices that sicken customers. It made sense- if a restaurant was not a responsible employer, how could we expect that restaurant to be responsible with our health and safety? ~ Sarumathi Jayaraman

Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.' ~ Noureen DeWulf

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.' ~ Richard Branson

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. ~ Thomas Keller

I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home. ~ Thaksin Shinawatra

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung! ~ Solomon Burke

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant. ~ Abby Wambach

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ~ Bryan Q. Miller

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring. ~ Macaulay Culkin

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes. ~ Danny Meyer

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody. ~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu. ~ Junior Seau

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant. ~ Mickey Gilley

For Thanksgiving, a quote from my book, The Restaurant Reviewer, with deepest thanks for all the bounty:

In the kitchen here ingredients are cherished. This restaurant remembers that food tastes good. ~ Nao Hauser

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria. ~ Joy Behar

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. ~ Masa Takayama

The restaurant industry is brutal. ~ Rene Redzepi

I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.' ~ Jennifer Grey

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. ~ Lindsey Graham

I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant. ~ Daniel Boulud

I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you. ~ Danny Meyer

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work. ~ S. Truett Cathy

What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant. ~ Marshawn Lynch

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility. ~ David Lee

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.' ~ Kevin Hart

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. ~ Wolfgang Puck

Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it. ~ Kenneth Cranham

A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. ~ Morey Amsterdam

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. ~ Robert Irvine

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live. ~ Paul Prudhomme

Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal. ~ Andrew Mason

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist. ~ Carine Roitfeld

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. ~ Michael Gambon

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin. ~ Ming-Na Wen

I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out. ~ David Henrie

I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees. ~ Michael Symon

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese. ~ Savannah Guthrie

When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets. ~ Nobu Matsuhisa

I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems. ~ Mack Brown