Heaven is certainly a funnier place with John.
Now you made me remember the fucker died. He had thirty more years! RIP, M. Bourdain, we miss you.
Doh! I’d forgotten until you mentioned it :-/
The book was an eye opener for me, but I didn’t really follow his TV career much.
The book and its follow-up, a chef’s tour were very fine, yes. His TV is really watchable, too. Smart, passionate and charming, he was a great host. Recommended.
No. They had been working on a basis of elephant-stomping on any case, until Delta that was enough. A case would show up, even passing contacts get locked down, a few might get it but that’s it. It was working quite well.
The wisdom of eating at a buffet notwithstanding, this guy’s a dick.
Somehow not the least surprising that he’s motivated by social media. You’d think if he has a following he’d chip in a little more money to the house instead of (metaphorically) shitting where he (literally) eats.
The Submarine! First time I ever got drunk! I was a soldier and the base newspaper had a coupon for “drink and drown” for, like $6 or something insane. If you ordered more than a few Dos Equis, they’d just hand you a 12 pack. Insane.
Texas. I moved here during the height of the pandemic and couldn’t believe how packed the japanese buffet was.
He added that he is banning all live-streamers from the restaurant.
Fair enough. Can’t say I blame him.
In China, restaurants have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
And, as I learned during a trip to Nanjing a few years back, so do hotels…
In around 2012 or so, I had a damned fine meal at Tetsuya’s in Sydney AU, purely on the recommendation from the episode of The Cook’s Tour. At the time Testuya’s was the No. 5 ranked restaurant in the world. It was well worth the $BIGNUM
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