I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown…

- Bill Geist

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the s…

- Bill Geist

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermud…

- Bill Geist

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front…

- Bill Geist

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

- Bill Geist

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

- Bill Geist

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

- Bill Geist

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

- Bill Geist