The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to appreciate the oregano-heavy garlic bread, the individual bowls for olive pits, the starched napkins stuffed into our wineglasses, or the waiter's strained enunciation of a long list of specials.
Jonathan LethemTags: 347 restaurants
Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu—actually of the prices not the courses—outside a restaurant on our first and only visit to Paris. I knew at once that the odds against enjoyment had shortened (or is it lengthened? I never remember).
Christopher HitchensTags: family paris enjoyment restaurants price menus odds
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 ThompsonTags: sarcasm restaurants dim-lighting
De twee vrouwen namen een grote hap spaghetti en de ober koos precies dat moment uit om terug te wippen en te vragen of alles naar wens was, waarop ze beiden hevig knikten en oergeluiden maakten. "Dat leren ze op de oberschool," zei Stevie nadat ze doorgeslikt had. "Wachten tot iedereen de mond vol heeft gepropt en het dan vragen. Dat vinden ze gewéldig. Het hoogtepunt van hun werk.
Milly JohnsonTags: humor restaurants waarheid eten obers sarcastisch
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
Criss JamiTags: selfish service labor attention king ordinary-people royalty insecurity restaurants discontent disrespect waiter inconsiderate waitress food-industry food-service
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.
Amor TowlesTags: poetry restaurants necessities handbags experiences luxuries fine-dining haute-cuisine
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 ClancyTags: history wwii food japan architecture restaurants kyoto machiya
The first thing that struck you about Claire’s plate was its vast emptiness. Of course I’m well aware that, in the better restaurants, quality takes precedence over quantity, but there are voids and then there are voids. The void here, that part of the plate on which no food at all was present, had clearly been raised to a matter of principle.
It was as though the empty plate was challenging you to say something about it, to go to the open kitchen and demand an explanation. ‘You wouldn’t even dare!’ the plate said, and laughed in your face.
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I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]
Marcus SamuelssonTags: restaurants management-and-leadership
My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it!
Monica DiNataleTags: food travel budget restaurants monica-dinatale 365-guide
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