Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.