Chef

I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.

I always eat a meal at home before I leave for the airport, so I only eat the soup and salad on the plane.

I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

My favorite knife is from Miyakoya in Japan - I have one in each of my restaurants.

Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish.

Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies.

My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan.

People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'

When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes.