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Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Be My Head:
Holy crap, I just realized there wasn't a topic on this show here.
Anyway, any other fans? IMHO this is the best show on Food and Travel that exists, period. So much soul, and he makes me want to go live everywhere he visits. The best part is that there's never any cliches where he goes, and he always discovers the real soul of the place.
The Laos, Korea, and Singapore episodes are probably close to my favourite ones. The Paris one kicks ass though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBmGIJSljAs
Read his book Kitchen Confidential, changed my life.
Ozymandias:
His Chicago episode lead me to Hot Dougs.
NO REGRETS.
Bastardous Bassist:
Kitchen Confidential (the book) is fantastic. His claim that he's captured what it's like to work in a kitchen is absolutely true. He is also great on the show. It is one of my favorites. On his Charleston show, the server when he goes to one of the restaurants is actually a great musician.
The one thing that annoys me a little bit is that it always seems he'd rather eat at a roadside stand than at a nice restaurant because it's more "genuine," and I don't think that's entirely true. Sure, a really nice restaurant is more likely to focus on flash more than substance, and he's completely burnt out on that, but I've been to a fairly significant number nicer restaurants that have placed the focus squarely on the food, and with that extra money they're charging, they can hire really technically proficient cooks.
P.S. I want everyone to take a second and check out this show on Hulu. Are you crying yet?
Boro_Bandito:
I like Bourdain's show a lot, but his voice-over narrative can be a bit grating at times. I can easily forgive that though over all of the other pros that this show definitely has.
Be My Head:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 19 Nov 2009, 20:24 ---The one thing that annoys me a little bit is that it always seems he'd rather eat at a roadside stand than at a nice restaurant because it's more "genuine," and I don't think that's entirely true. Sure, a really nice restaurant is more likely to focus on flash more than substance, and he's completely burnt out on that, but I've been to a fairly significant number nicer restaurants that have placed the focus squarely on the food, and with that extra money they're charging, they can hire really technically proficient cooks.
--- End quote ---
Well yeah, and no. I think it actually depends on what part of the world. He seems to prefer the street vendors and food courts in countries like Singapore and Japan more than he would in say France or England. I think what he really likes is when someone specializes in doing one thing really well (As he mentions pretty often on his show). Like the Venice episode, where he goes to the nice restaurant for the risotto (fyi: one of my favourite scenes in his show, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyQvTefwP48). Same thing goes for the Saigon lunch lady.
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