You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.