It's a similar mentality to restaurant cooking, similar but it's another world? A. From a selfish point of view, I couldn't think of a better way of blending two of my passions — food and Formula One.
Service in this city is notoriously bad because many residents tend to have a permanent-vacation mentality, and most restaurants include service on the bill, which means there's little incentive to hustle.
The Times' restaurant critic Giles Coren espouses this mentality.
Peter Hoffman, the chef and an owner, has spent 17 years making himself and his SoHo restaurant Savoy synonymous with a Greenmarket mentality.
Add to this a "let's do it all night" nightlife, sophisticated restaurants and the boom-or-bust mentality of a country whose economy is 40% oil production, and you've got Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.
Erik Blauberg, a former executive chef at New York's '21′ Club, who now runs restaurant consultancy EKB, says yes. "There's a very different mentality today regarding what it means to be a chef," says Blauberg.
Plus, the restaurant, now in its second month, is still operating with a frontier mentality.
Armed with a global vision and a D.I.Y. mentality, Armani has meticulously built a multibillion-dollar empire, seamlessly annexing couture, furniture, restaurants and, most recently, hotels.
"The mentality of the Midwest is, green is garnish," explained Heidi Van Pelt-Belle, who runs Füd, a vegetarian restaurant in Kansas City.
This mentality of taking what the land, and hence the market, offers does not extend to most restaurant buyers and consumers.
