Quotes from Wolfgang Puck

I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday.

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love.

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

If you're cooking for a woman, make a good risotto and a salad. If you don't have time to make desert you can go and buy some macaroons to have afterwards.

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape.

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

I think the time of the formal dinners is over.

Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.