When You Use Tabasco In The Marinade,

Although The Skills Aren't Hard To Learn, Finding The Happiness And Finding The Satisfaction And Finding Fulfillment In Continuously Serving Somebody Else Something Good To Eat, Is What Makes A Really Good Restaurant.

Passion Is What Adds So Much Value To Life. And If You Think About The Things That You Do, There's So Much Juice Potential For Them If You Do It.

Every Super Bowl, I Do Different Food Each Quarter From Each Of The Hometowns Of The Teams Competing. So I’m Always Hoping For Cities With A Gastronomic Soul—not So Much Indianapolis Or Denver, Right? For Halftime We Have New York Hot Dogs From Papaya Dog. And At The End Of The Game I’ve Chosen A Dessert Based On Who I Think Is Going To Win.

Even Though You'll See Gnocchi Or Linguine Everywhere In Some Of The Regions Of Italy, Each Of Those Chefs Has Their Own Expression Of That Which Expresses More About The Place They Were Exactly Born Than It Does About Trying To Be A Part Of The Greater Mass. And That's The Italian Culture.

When We Opened Babbo, We Were An Indie Band. Now We're Kinda Apple. We Have 19 Restaurants And 2,800 Employees, We Are No Longer Perceived As The Indie Band Although We Think Of Ourselves As The Indie Band, And We Operate Our Restaurants As Individual Indie Bands.