We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.
Indian spices can find a place in any cuisine. It's just a matter of opening your mind and palate to new flavors.
Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
For a food lover with a big imagination, there's nothing worse than eating the exact same meal several days in a row.
There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.
When you are in a different city, you must relish the local food and I always like to try the authentic taste and flavours of a city.
It's always good to update your food. It's always exciting to learn and update new flavor profiles.
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.