With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.
I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'
Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.
The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.
I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.
I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.
I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.
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