Aunt Edna: Is this your idea of a good restaurant? Dog killer!
I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.
I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.
I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.
I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal.
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.
Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.
It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.
At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.
The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...
I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
