Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

- David Chang

I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

- Nate Berkus

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

- Meghan Markle

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

- John Hench

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

- Hanya Yanagihara

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

- Graham Elliot

Shared dining fortifies us.

- Deng Ming-Dao

I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

- Daniel Boulud

If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.

- David Chang

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

- Anthony Bourdain

I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'

- Danny Meyer

'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.

- Danny Meyer

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

- Candice Olson

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

- Common

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

- Amanda Pays

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

- A. N. Wilson

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

- Alain Ducasse

I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

- Adam Richman