Danny Meyer

Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.