'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. Anthony Bourdain
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.Anthony Bourdain
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.orson welles
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. P. G. Wodehouse
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. Anthony Bourdain