Top 265 Menu Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

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.

It's hard to comprehend a hot brunch menu without a shakshuka.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

I think I was eight or nine when I had my first long-form tasting menu.

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

The menu is not the meal.

For a menu to come together, you have to have sweetness, saltiness, crunchiness... it's all about balance.

I love a themed occasion - it provides endless possibilities for the menu, decorations and drinks pairings.

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

Research is especially important when we're deciding on a new menu.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

If I go to a restaurant, which I do often, I know what I want, and it's not on the menu half the time. Half the time, they have to adjust the menu or what they got in the back, and they'll make it for me.

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Advice is like food, and teaching is a menu.

At restaurants, I always get a kids' menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.

I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Back in the early days of international, everybody wanted to customize the menu for every place.

Fashion is like eating. You shoudn't stick with the same menu.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

But understanding the complexities of the ramen menu is an equally tricky feat for a foreigner. Both regional and stylistic variations apply to each menu. Add to that the spin that each particular ramen chef puts on his dish, and you rarely know what you are going to get.

When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

Life is a menu. Whatever you order is what's delivered to the table.

I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Italian food is simple and healthy, and it's easier for a vegetarian to choose something from the menu.