A customer who often comes to my restaurant and always enchants me for his simplicity, shyness and self-irony is film director Woody Allen.

The success of a restaurant is made of the details, ... Our job is built from zero everyday. In the morning, everything is raw, nothing is cooked.

I believe that classic Italian kitchen, that is the old days home cooking, the old times women cooking, reflects a universal taste that everybody likes, regardless of nationality. It is the only cuisine that can be prepared and repeated daily. This is definitely one of the reasons of the success of our restaurants.

Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.