Gourmet Meals Gifts

"The wine has subtle hints of expensive pretension, but it's balanced nicely by the screw cap."

"I was going to make a seven course gourmet dinner, but the microwave is broken."

"I ate some yogurt once. It was very good."

"Please listen carefully as the menu has changed."

"This place is slipping. The 'Chef's Surprise' looks more like a cook's confusion."

Swan dish.

'I hope your 'kittycat gourmet delight' tastes better than my 'doggy sirloin supreme!''

"You might try the Trout Almandine - it's just swimming in credit card debt."

"I was with you right up to the cumin."

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

"Boil, toil and trouble, I wish I'd never started this risotto."

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

"I know you didn't order the snails, sir. They're complimentary with the salad."

'A cheeky red?'

"When I was your age. I was really smelly."

The wonderful world of cheese.

La Table

"Yo, Cézanne, paint faster. I need those grapes for the Madeira sauce."

'This is one of our most recent vintages!'

'Plastic corks, then screw caps; when they come out with a flip-n-sip Chateau Petrus I'm hanging up my tastevin.'

"I just finished your manuscript and I found the ending delicious."

Cookbooks

Careful, the plate's probably still hot.

"So this coffee shop if your 'hangout'?"

'The heart and eyes feel nothing, but the stomach and ears are completely infatuated.'

"And I'm teaming that burned sausage up with a warm, flat local lager."

'Wait until you taste the artisanal water. It's not to be believed.'

It turns out they don't go together so well,

'Waiter...my entrée fell over.'

"I feel like we are the polyester of dairy products."

'No, I'm not the sommelier; in fact, I don't even work here - I've just always wanted to try this wine.'

French wine

"All the butter was gone. There was no way out. The puff pastry had to be made with margarine... from a tub."

"Hmmm ... you're right — I forgot the brie."

"I come here for the pepper."