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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.

I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.

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

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.

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.

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

Shared dining fortifies us.

My wife doesn't cook, so we eat out every night. It's not fine dining or anything - we're not fancy people.

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