Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown: Like No Reservations in Slow Motion

If one were to describe Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, it would have to, quite simply, be "just like No Reservations -- with slow motion."Bourdain has said that he left he Travel Channel and moved to CNN to gain access to places that he couldn't go to with No Reservations. There was never any exp ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Would Love to Go to North Korea (Videos)

Anthony Bourdain's CNN show, Parts Unknown, premieres this Sunday, April 14, at 9 p.m., and the cable network is all behind him. Recently, the network placed a full-page ad in the New York Times "reintroducing" itself and featuring many of its headliners -- including Bourdain.Bourdain has also been ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Plays a Cartoon Chef on Archer Tonight (Video)

Anthony Bourdain, author, chef, comic-book writer, and TV host is making a cartoon appearance tonight. Bourdain portrays celebrity chef Lance Casteau, owner of "Hellish Kitchen" on the FX animated show Archer.In the episode, titled "Live and Let Dine," secret agents Archer, Lana, and Cyril go u ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson Drink PBR; Talk Tattoos, Runny Eggs and Christopher Walken

Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson might be the hottest culinary duo since bacon met the frying pan. And yesterday, the Taste stars took the stage together at the SoBeWFF. Lounging on a couch, the two talked significant others, guilty pleasures and Christoper Walken. Oh, and drank beer. Seriously, ... More >>

Eat Your Heart Out

Anthony Bourdain's Crazy Cayman Tweets: "Clearly We Are Fucked"

At first maybe we thought Anthony Bourdain hired a new publicist....or got stronger meds because we haven't heard much "bad boy" stuff coming from the author/television host/chef.Instead of the usual snark, bile, and teeth, the new year brought a new Bourdain complete with live-tweeting an episode o ... More >>

Biggest Food News Stories of 2012

In the sea of headlines you'll read throughout the day, few will likely have anything to do with food. Unless that's your thing, of course. But if you're like us, it is your thing, and you thrive on hearing news about restaurants and chefs just as much (or maybe more) as you would hearing about w ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Tweets About Secret Service Keg Party: State Department To Investigate

Looks like everyone in the free world takes what Anthony Bourdain tweets into consideration.Read also:Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain Previews New CNN ShowWhile filming episodes for his new CNN show Parts Unknown in Myanmar, Bourdain tweeted the following nugget of inside information:

Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain Previews New CNN Show (Video)

Though Anthony Bourdain has closed the door on his relationship with the Travel Channel (and burned all bridges with rants about the interweaving of Cadillac ads into his final No Reservations episode), he's opened a wide terrace with his new CNN gig.Parts Unknown, premiering in spring 2013, has Bou ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain and David Chang Team Up For New PBS Series: The Mind of a Chef

Anthony Bourdain is one busy guy. In addition to closing out his run on No Reservations, he's got an additional season of The Layover in the can, is writing for HBO's Treme, and preparing for his new gig at CNN. That would be way too much for the average man, but let's never forget that Tony Bourdai ... More >>

SoBe Wine & Food Fest Opens Ticket Presale Today for MasterCard Holders; Six Events to Buy Before They Sell Out

Here's a reason to get excited! The South Beach Wine & Food Festival ticket presale starts today. The presale, which is exclusively for MasterCard holders, gives SBWFF and FIU-benefitting lovers a whole two weeks to buy tickets before they go on sale to the general public October 22. Festival ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: Final Season Starts September 3

Anthony Bourdain is moving on to greener pastures, and our hearts (and stomachs) will follow the writer, chef, and snarkmeister to CNN when he starts his gig at the cable news giant.For now, however, we have an entire new season of No Reservations to look forward to.Since it's Bourdain's last hurrah ... More >>

Get Jiro: Anthony Bourdain Writes a Futuristic, Gory Comic Book

At this point in his career, there's not much left for Anthony Bourdain to do. He's hosted television shows, acted as guest judge on others, written bestselling memoirs and novels, and has perfected the art of Tweeting. It seemed the only things left on the Bourdain bucket list would be to own a per ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain And Nigella Lawson's New Show Seeks Chefs

Anthony Bourdain is at it again!  Not content to have just a television deal with CNN and a book publishing deal with Ecco, the celebrity chef is working on a new reality cooking competition show for ABC.Bourdain has paired with Nigella Lawson for the as-yet-untitled show (the catchy working ti ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Inks Deal With CNN For New Show (Updated)

Anthony Bourdain is putting more on his plate to chew on. The author and host of Travel Channel's No Reservations has just signed on to host an as-yet-untitled weekend show on CNN, as part of the cable network's expansion from news-only to food and travel shows.Launching in early 2013, the show will ... More >>

James Beard Awards Screw Latino Workers

Last night, as many of our loyal readers watched NBC's The Voice, ABC's Dancing with the Stars, and Travel Channel's No Reservations, a bit of virtual battle was taking place on Twitter. Perhaps a few (likely from the culinary industry) tuned into the live webcast of the James Beard Foundation award ... More >>

Bourdain: Short Order "Offended" Me and My "Sense of Pride"

On Monday evening, the season eight premiere of No Reservations took Anthony Bourdain to Mozambique.The next morning, I blogged that the episode was a departure from most of Bourdain's usually snarky world view. A few hours later, Bourdain Tweeted the following:

Bourdain's No Reservations is Back Tonight: Five Places We'd Like to See Tony Visit

Anthony Bourdain, the chef, traveler, writer, snarkmeister, and media whore extraordinaire, is doing the full-on media blitz to get the word out that No Reservations premieres tonight, at 9 p.m. on Travel Channel. Last week he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, where Stewart said he gets diarrhea just ... More >>

Ten Strangest Things at the South Beach Wine and Food Fest

​The South Beach Wine & Food Festival wrapped up yesterday after a four-day whirlwind of dinners, brunches, parties, cocktails, and events.Each year we're delighted by the food, impressed by the cocktails, and amazed by the sheer number of celebrities that come to Miami to party and mingle.Dur ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Celebs Party at Satellite Events, Restaurants

​The hottest ticket in town this weekend may not have been in the Grand Tasting Village or some of the official parties. It seems that the celebs in town for the event were dining and drinking at various small gatherings and uber-private receptions at different venues scattered around Miami and Mi ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Where the Celebs Hang Out in Miami

​The South Beach Wine and Food Festival starts this Thursday, February 23, with satellite parties starting as early as tomorrow. Hotels, restaurants, and shops are gearing up for the invasion of foodies, celebrities and beautiful people who arrive as early as today.Since Miami has a thriving resta ... More >>

Priciest SoBeWFF Tickets and Cheaper Alternatives

​Now that Super Bowl is over, we can concentrate on the next big event -- the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which opens February 23. Like the big game, the SoBeWFF offers lots of opportunities to max out your credit card on parking, food, and booze. Tickets are expensive for the vario ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Goes to Amsterdam and Doesn't Smoke Pot (A Recap)

​Last evening, I glued myself to the television in hot anticipation of Anthony Bourdain's newest episode of The Layover: Amsterdam. As Tony lands at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, I picture an hour of pot-smoking, hash brownie-eating, hooker-laden indulgence before Tony wakes up in a pool of his ow ... More >>

Bourdain on GMA, Carmellini on Live With Kelly

ABCAnthony Bourdain and tree on Good Morning America​'Tis the season to have celebrity chefs on morning television cooking their favorite dishes and making merry with the likes of Kelly Ripa, Kathy Lee, and Robin Roberts.  This week, two of our favorite chefs made it to ABC morning studios.An ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: He's In Miami, Bitch (Sneak Peek)

Laine DossAnthony Bourdain's in Miami (finally).​Anthony Bourdain filmed The Layover in Miami back in the summer and we've been dying to find out exactly what he did on the Magic City. He definitely went to some food trucks, stayed at The Raleigh Hotel, cruised on a boat, visited Blue Piano and at ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: Rome Is For Food Lovers (A Recap)

The Travel ChannelTony Bourdain on a Vespa...vroom vroom.​Episode three of The Layover and I'm slightly warming up to it, maybe because the cities are getting better. It's hard to keep a frantic pace up in Rome - after all, it's a city where a quick cup of espresso can take an hour and about 2,000 ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's NYC Layover: Short Order Style

All photos by Laine DossNew York Hot Dog cart with Chrysler Building​In last week's episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain showed us what to do in New York City with only 24 hours in the Big Apple (read our recap here). We wanted to do something similar, but with a twist.We landed in New York ye ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: Tony Takes Manhattan (A Recap)

​Last week, The Layover premiered to audible groans of pain...by me. Anthony Bourdain's new travel show had an interesting premise -- what would Tony do if stuck in a city for 24 hours?  Unfortunately, the show had a frenetic overly produced feel about it. I disliked the clock counting down t ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover Premieres Tonight

​Anthony Bourdain's new Travel Channel show, The Layover, premieres tonight at 9. The show, inspired by Bourdain's frequent trips for his other Travel Channel show, No Reservations, takes us to major cities in the United States, Europe, and Asia so we can watch Tony eat, drink, and hang with the l ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain to David Letterman: I Spend All My Money On Crack Cocaine and Shiny New Cars (Video)

Laine DossBourdain in a shiny new car​Anthony Bourdain is on the talk show circuit to promote his new show, The Layover, which debuts on the Travel Channel on November 21. When he drops in on The Late Show, the interview starts out serious and mild. Tony and Dave Letterman discuss such weighty is ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Tweets His Own Naked Pictures

Travel ChannelTony Bourdain is nekked in Iceland​TMZ has leaked some naked pictures of Anthony Bourdain. No, they're not full-frontal, and no you really can't see junk or ass (there's a big red star over any interesting parts). The photos, taken a few years ago, show Bourdain and his then sous che ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tickets Go On Sale Today

Laine DossBourdain will be back at the 2012 SBWFF​Tickets for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale today.If you attended last year's event you might recall Anthony Bourdain's Wheel of Death, Paula Deen riding Robert Irvine, or Guy Fieri making pizzas for one thousand of his closest ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: A Sneak Peek (Video)

Laine DossAnthony Bourdain drives a red Corvette (and we hide in a shrub).​There's no secret that we love Anthony Bourdain. He's witty, snarky, smart as hell and has managed to parlay these talents (along with mad writing skills and, the ability to cook) into every foodie's dream job. Unlike fell ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Spotted at The Blue Piano

​We're thoroughly convinced that Anthony Bourdain reads Short Order and lives and dies by our witty take on the Miami food scene. (Well, that's what our egos tell us as we stay awake at night in a cold sweat wondering if we're good enough to ever be in his presence.) Back in May, we wrote about ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Eats at Food Truck With Michael Schwartz

Anthony Bourdain films and eats at Tropical Park.​We had another Bourdain sighting in town yesterday. Despite the 24 Hour Layover's production team trying to hide filming locations, the Twitterverse exploded with Bourdain's whereabouts. Seems as though Bourdain was on a boat yesterday, cru ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Drives a Red Corvette, Eats Colombianos

Photos by Laine Doss Tony Bourdain leaves the scene in a red CorvetteThough it might be no secret that Anthony Bourdain is in Miami to shoot his new Travel Channel show, 24-Hour Layover, the production crew wanted the exact shooting locations to remain a secret. Unfortunately, Eater scooped t ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Broke The Cuban Embargo Last Night, (Mostly) Without Embarrassing Himself

via YouTube​Anthony Bourdain has the best travel show on television not just because he's an asshole, but because he's such a damn astute one. He doesn't buy the Chamber of Commerce's bullshit, but he also doesn't lean on cynicism for its own sake. Like any good journalist, in other words, he gets ... More >>

"When Tony Gets Hungry, Things Die." Anthony Bourdain's Ten Best Quotes

Will Bourdain feature Club Deuce on his new show?​Anthony Bourdain is debuting his second Travel Channel show this fall. Titled 24-Hour Layover, it will focus on what happens between trips to Greenland and Vietnam and Cuba.In other words, what does Tony do closer to home? The show will b ... More >>

5 Reasons David Chang's On Top

Eight years after opening his flagship restaurant, Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village, David Chang is still on top of the food world and only getting bigger (cameos on Top Chef and HBO's hit show Treme, plus a new restaurant set to open in Sydney, Australia).

Anthony Bourdain Shares 10-Second Recipes for Drunks on Jimmy Fallon

​Anthony Bourdain is better known for being a snarky wise ass who drinks like Hemingway on a bender than for being a great chef - which is perfectly fine by him and a major reason why we love him so much. Tony (as his friends in rehab like to call him) recently went on Late Night with Jimmy Fa ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Rôti de Porc au Lait

Travel Channel​Searing a hog and shooting some hard liquor is the only acceptable way to honor avowed pork addict and alcoholic connoisseur Anthony Bourdain. Naturally, any South Floridian's first impulse would be to stuff that mojo mofo into a caja china and let him roast till sundown. Sadly, tho ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Sends a Bloody Valentine to Celeb Chefs

​Look out Paula Deen and Rachel Ray, Anthony Bourdain has it out for you. In his latest foodie diatribe, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, he attacks celeb chefs, saying there are about as many real chefs on the Food Network as there are music videos on M ... More >>

Disdain From Bourdain

SBWFF 2010: Sunday Afternoon at the Grand Tasting Village; Bourdain, Ripert Face-Off

We spent Sunday afternoon at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Whole Foods Grand Tasting Village, walking around the massive tents around 13th and Ocean tasting mostly liquor. It's no secret that this event has become less about the bites and more about the booze -- well, and the celebrity ... More >>

Better Halves: Interview with Ottavia Busia Bourdain

Ottavia BourdainOttavia and her husband, Anthony Bourdain, relax with some banana daquiris at the Raleigh Hotel pool on South Beach.​If you're familiar with food porn, Ottavia's last name should ring a bell. Her husband is print, television, and most recently Martha Stewart Living radio food porno ... More >>

Cayman Cookout Chef Interview: Host Eric Ripert Shares How to Eat Local On-Island, Proves Chivalry is not Dead

If you have your pointer finger on the pulse of the global food community and its star chefs, you would know this past weekend was the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman's second annual Cayman Cookout.  We're speaking of the island rendezvous of illustrious professional cooks including Jose Andrés, Da ... More >>

Video: Anthony Bourdain Burns 6 Tons of Cocaine

Bourdain, cocaine. Hey, that kind of rhymes.No reason why the Travel Channel's No Reservations star and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain shouldn't burn 6 tons of fresh, uncut, powder cocaine with the Director of National Security of Panama.Yeah there is. He's a TV chef. Why the hell is he burning a ... More >>

The Spatulas are Out

Last Night: Anthony Bourdain at the Arsht Center

This man loves Mac's Club Deuce. (Reason No. 293 why we love this man.) Better Than: Pounding cheap beers between a soul-crushing double on the saute station. The evidence, plainly, is undeniable: the best-selling books, the top-rated Travel Channel Show, the Top Chef judging gigs. Hell, even t ... More >>

Cookbooking with Gas