In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

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

I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.