Todd English Quotes

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

I love celery and people don’t use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family – it really brightens and is refreshing.

We’ll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it’s like, the percentages are that maybe one person’s not going to like what they get. And I can’t be there to fix it. I hate that. We’re in this business to make things that please people.

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That’s my thing. The thing I’m constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

I’ve got a really great team around me. They’re the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that’s good can’t be stifled in any way. I don’t baby people.

I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we’re all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don’t sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.