181 Quotes by Mario Batali

Nothing that would be as artistic as any of the four restaurants I have in the city. If I was to do anything in Las Vegas, for instance, it would have to be... idiot-proof. And I still haven't decided if I'm capable of that.

The minimum time spent in any one restaurant should be a year, no matter what. You may feel that you're done earlier, but it's truly in a year that you learn the discipline and technical things you need to know about a particular restaurant.

I'm not gonna tell anybody but of course I'm worried. I'm working every hour of every day. This is my main event.

I like the history of the Daytona 500. It's like the Kentucky Derby of car racing.

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

If neither of the two parties are happy, then you have a closed restaurant. And if only one of the two groups is happy, you have one that will close. So, to create an opportunity for both the customers and the staff to have a superior experience is my constant struggle.

I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88.

I like things that are fun, and I look to do them a lot, and that I have the opportunities to do them makes me a lucky guy.

If you approach cooking as a trade school, then you may not have as many interesting things to think about or do later on in life.