#restaurants

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya. ↗

— Judith Clancy

#food #history #japan #kyoto #machiya

Andrew just shrugged, and I fiddled with the napkin in my lap while glancing idly around the restaurant. The obligatory mirrors hung on the walls, and there was one of those fountains with fake lily pads in the entryway. The restaurant was also lit like a mine shaft. I've never understood why dim lighting is supposed to be so romantic. Night vision belongs into a Paris Hilton sex tape - not in a restaurant that could potentially poison me with peanut sauce. ↗

— Alicia Thompson

#restaurants #sarcasm #romantic

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.' ↗

— Hank Azaria

#call #celebrities #clubs #early #either

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down. ↗

— Mario Batali

#become #chefs #cookbooks #different #done

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing? ↗

— Marian Burros

#broadway shows #cast #charge #dining #dining room

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#deaf #each #employees #hire #many

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#museums #par #restaurants

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing. ↗

— Murray Walker

#confusing #different #given #had #i

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#dvds #eating #i #radius #restaurants

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are. ↗

— Michael Symon

#assume #case #chefs #complain #i