I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.
I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, "I have a really great idea for a restaurant."
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.
Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.
I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.
I absolutely love low-key restaurants.
I'm a restaurant junkie.
We had dinner at Figlio's, which has turned into a restaurant called Il Gato. I'm 99% positive I had Joe's Eggs. I know every time I went there, and I loved it, I ordered Joe's Eggs. Kate [DiCamillo] probably had a pizza, because she loves pizza.
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
