Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.
If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?
Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.
I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.
The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.
