122 Quotes by Danny Meyer

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.

My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.

People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time.