The amount of customers who take pictures before they eat is insane.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.