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Not Fade Away
By Anthony Bourdain on February 22, 2009 11:26 AM | Permalink | 258 Comments
We're calling Monday night's show "DISAPPEARING MANHATTAN,, but this is not to suggest that Katz's Deli, or Keen's, or Russ & Daughters are going to fade away anytime soon (if ever). What I am saying with this "Special" episode is that these are exactly the kind of old school, hometown places I love; uniquely New York institutions who have survived the brutal caprices of style and changing tastes -- and are still worth going out of your way to patronize. Let me make this clear: "Old" does not necessarily mean "good." Just cause it's a "New York institution" doesn't mean you want to eat there. If it did, New Yorkers might actually eat at Tavern On The Green -- and Luchows would still be open.
Peter Luger? You can have it. Grand Central Oyster Bar? Good luck. The places featured on this show just happen to be institutions. They just happen to be old. Newer, more ... pragmatic enterprises couldn't or wouldn't do what they're doing. Most -- if not all -- of the places featured on this episode are dinosaurs, among the last of mostly extinct herds who, once long ago, ruled New York's concrete jungle. But these remaining eateries, though perhaps no longer "culturally relevant," and certainly not "hip" -- and about as far from "trendy" or "hot" as anything could be, are in fact what make New York special. All are still great after all these years.
I contend they deserve love and respect from anyone serious about food or about having a good time. Good food is always "relevant." Manganaro's Grosseria and the awesome time warp of a French restaurant, Le Veau D'Or are businesses who would very likely be more profitable selling sneakers or tube socks or designer cupcakes. They hang on -- in a particularly unfriendly economic climate -- for the simple reason that they're owned by magnificently stubborn people who happen to own their buildings. Manganaro's is a bit of vintage Italian-America that people raised on a more al dente, post-Batali, Northern-inflected, lightly sauced, meatball-free, an Italian might not appreciate. But it's a vital step back in time, another world, and an essential one to remember and to cherish.
If you don't like the spaghetts with red sauce and meatballs in the back dining area at Manganaro's? If you don't "get it?" You're just not drinking enough red wine. There is better French food in New York these days than what they're serving at Le Veau D'Or. But if you can't have one of the kooky-great times of your life at this absolutely untouched by time frog pond -- with its delightfully irony-free, 60-year-old menu? Then you really have no true love for French food -- and certainly nothing resembling a heart. It's the bistro that time forgot -- a last link to a golden age of tableside carving, curly parsley as state of the art garnish and desserts seen last in the pages of the Larrousse Gastronomique. Snobs will no doubt carp that Katz's has been covered to death on TV and in films -- and they will groan (accurately enough) that every damn lazy-ass food writer from elsewhere, looking to cover the "real" New York (in an afternoon) will write about their few bites of pastrami at this downtown institution, make a few oblique and obligatory "When Harry Met Sally" references and move on. But there's a reason Marco Pierre White, for instance, loves the place -- and why so many people keep going back: not JUST because they "don't make 'em like that anymore" -- but because it's damn good pastrami. Period.
The herring and smoked and cured fish they sell at Russ & Daughters would be just as desirable if the store were a spanking new gourmet shop -- instead of a century old institution which grew up from a street cart. The product speaks for itself. Russ & Daughters occupies that rare and tiny place on the mountaintop reserved for those who are not just the oldest and the last -- but also the best. I do make allowances for personal history, for the sentimental attachments and willful blindness that comes with growing up with a particular kind of food. At Hop Kee in Chinatown, I was -- before moving on to the more delicious and authentic delights of the "phantom menu" (supposedly reserved for Chinese patrons) -- unable to resist the charms of the clunky, corn-starchy kwailo classics I first encountered as a kid. It had been a long, long time since I'd had an egg roll, or won ton soup, or a scary-bright sweet and sour pork -- and by this time, after having eaten all over China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan -- that old style "not really Chinese" stuff had become genuinely exotic again. For those of you less inclined to nostalgia, I highly recommend the whole flounder and the crabs.
The show closes talking about the changing face of drinking in New York with the dangerously talented, equally dangerous to know Nick Tosches. He's written some of the greatest biographies ever (on Dean Martin, Sonny Liston, Jerry Lee Lewis) among other good works, all of which which I strongly urge you to check out. "Legend" is not an inappropriate word to use when describing Tosches. His book "Hand of Dante" is, I think, the only novel I've ever seen published with a cautionary band and parental advisory outside the jacket.
And while I'm referring you elsewhere, may I suggest clicking on the "Meet The Crew" feature on this site? Getting to know a little about the incredible mix of talented people who produce, direct, shoot and edit NO RESERVATIONS will, I think, explain a lot about why it's so different from every other food or travel show. The "Crew Blog" and "Ask the Crew" sections are also of interest to anyone wanting to understand the highs, and lows and technical arcania of the Chanko Experience.
Lastly, I want to thank Augusto Elefano for getting my sorry ass to finally make the trip to the Philippines. I would not have done it without his final push. He and his family were lovely to me and my crew -- and the fact that they were a bit shy with cameras jammed in their faces -- if anything -- speaks well of them. I'd rather a shy, thoughtful guy, telling me something real about himself than an "expert" professional anytime. Thanks as well, to Claude, Ivan and special shout out to MarketMan -- whose preparations for the Cebu lechon extravaganza made the filming of Apocalypse Now look quick and easy.
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This is amazing. New York is the best. Crown Heights is my favorite place and i'm not even a jew!
God (or whatever) bless those old places. Whether in New York or elsewhere, the world will be a little sadder and have just a little less character when those places one day do close down. In the meantime, Tony, thanks for sharing them with us. Looking forward to Monday night.
If you took a Mid-Westerner and plopped them into the middle of New York and they found one of these old-style institutions, I think they would find a new culinary home right there. It's not the food itself, but the familiarity of folk making simple, honest food and most importantly, sincerity and warmth when it is served. The absence of haughty airs and the presence of a friendly smile (or lack of contemptuous sneer) does wonders for making an average meal a bit more memorable (and I'm not talking about the perky teenager with loads of buttons on her vest at Elephant BJ's McFunsters). Ask anyone around the country and they will have a favorite bland, greasy-spoon diner or old school dining establishment where the wallpaper and menu was last updated when fringe bellbottoms were still thought to be cool. They know the waitress the the blue hair who asks if you want gravy on your deep fried lard.
Tony, please, please, please, no more fan tag alongs. First, the Saudi show would've been a hundred times more interesting if you had actually been paired with someone who had experience with the country. And Augusto, while obviously a "nice" guy, completely dragged the Philippines show down. Sorry, but obviously even you or your editors could tell. That first half was great, but the second half became a torturous "how do we make Augusto interesting" segment. You have enough interesting sidekicks: Zamir, Vincenzo, Nari, and Ruhlman. Stop the fan gimmicks, please. Your show is better than that.
I know you filmed the montreal edition many years ago, but it replayed recently and I am aghast that you equated Eskimo dining with montreal. eskimo dining has nothing to do with montreal; it is canadian in theme so that if you had done a canadian segment it would have been appropriate.
you neglected chinatown, greek town and even the resurgence of restaurants in the plateau area of montreal. the cooking school you visited is a french only institution where english speaking chefs do not usually attend. it is pitiful that all your researchers could not come up with what is truly Montreal eating and forgot all about the vintage places we eat in the Laurentian mountains and on the outskirts of montral where fish is the freshest and eaten waterfront in St. Anne de Bellevue. Where tortiere and maple syrup pie is eaten at Au Petit Poucet in Val David, a mere 20 min outside of central downtown Montreal which I remember eating since I was five and skiing up north...the Willow Inn which has the same named restaurant attached that is also an institution for people on a Saturday night .....i can go on and on BUT ESKIMO food is eaten only in Yellowknife and for historic purposes only.
What a pity that you played right into what 'Americans' think of montreal-that of being a land of eskimos and inuits. such a show would be included had you done a segment on Canada's Northwest Territories BUT NOT montreal.
It shocks me that you did not pick up the phone to ask opinions and brain storm with Martin Picard.
BTW the Fairmont Bagel Factory closed down for years while St. Viateur remained in business, and only re-opened a few years ago when the children decided to re-open...Montrealers do not consider that their institution.
So disappointing that the Travel channel chose to air this segment which is not representative of Montreal for anyone over the age of thirty-five including the two young girls who 'showed' you around.
Who wrote the theme song for your show? It sounds familiar but I just cant place it...
i can't stop thinking about the P&G Bar.
Speaking of NYC...I'de like to see a show on Brooklyn alone. There are some amazing haunts in the neighborhoods. Food Porn was f*ckin hilarious!
Every city has some. Would it that there could be the equivalent of a historic landmark appellation for places like these.
Loved the show last week. The roasted pig had us drooling all over the the place ... could smell the crispy skin! Is it just me but who doesn't love crispy pig skin! We are really looking forward to the show tomorrow night - love New York and it will be great to join you on the ride!
I'm excited for this. I'm a rather "New" New Yorker, been here since Sept 07, but I'm a grad student. Poor and time-strapped. I'm now in my last semester, and for the first time since I started, I have some time and money. When my family comes to visit, they almost inevitably want something you'd find in Times Square Hard Rock. Where I grew up upstate we didn't have any restaurants like this, even though they suck. They see it on TV and they think that's what NYers actually eat. When they come for Graduation in May, I'd love some place to give them an honest-to-god slice of NY, that we could all go to. I hope this show gives an idea.
I left the East Coast 4 years ago. When asked what I miss the most, the answer always is the food. NYC deli's, R.I. real clam chowda, fish in any form. I could go on and on, but you get the gist of this. Tomorrows show will require me to wear a bib and have lots of napkins. Keep it up and thanks
Keep up the good work, sir! haha.
I went back to New York for my summer vacation last year and...I was disappointed when my cousin offered to go to Subways for lunch...mmm eat fresh. Watching you made me want to try stuff I would have never tried (although I'm korean so I guess I have already tried some weird stuff other people wouldnt eat in the first place). Sorry if my grammar is crude...I'm a high school student who's trying her best not to say LOL or...put a XD at the end of every sentence. But seriously I'm really looking forward to this episode so that I can go back to Manhattan and try some real food. You made me appreciate food. Thank you! (P.s. I loved your book Kitchen Confidential. soooo goooooooddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Hi, we love watching the show on Discovery Channel here in Canada, but I have one complaint. I don't know who is responsible for editing but why must the music be so loud when Anthony is speaking? Every time he describes something we can barely hear it as the music is too loud. We've noticed this on a couple of episodes and it is truly annoying. We love the show but this is getting to be too much! Music is supposed to be in the background and not the foreground. Thanks!
Looking forward to Monday night. Should be another good episode of NR.
Great idea for a show, and I'm very much looking forward to it (Sammy's Roumanian is still there?). But what's wrong with Peter Luger?
please oh please come to san diego. i have searched all of san diego and have found the best food spots along the coast. i guarantee you will love it
hi maybe this is not a place to write, but well i a Big fan (like all) and a professional photographer from colombia but i´m living in santiago de chile now, and i wondering if when you (Anthony Bourdain) come to chile, Can i take a portrait of you, just for my personal portfolio,?
Tony,
All the times I thought about moving out of the NYC area (I am from Jersey), the one thing keeping me here is NYC. Not just NYC, but the NYC you talk about in Disappearing Manhattan. There are days I go into the city and hike all around Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Can't make a stop at Katz's without going over to Russ & Daughters. Can't walk through Chinatown without hitting Pho Bang on Pike Street, or Nyona on Grand. There is nothing like ordering somethng off a menu (Asam Laksa) and the server saying to you "are you sure you want that, most American's can't handle it" As I am scooping up the last morsels from the bowl, the server then says, "are you sure you don't have some Malaysian in you".
Can't wait for tonight's show.
Hey Tony:
Well, your Philipines show was good. However, if you keep going to these out of the way places, you run the risk of being Zimmerned. While Andrew is cool, he ain't you.
I'm the nutball who suggested you take the crew on a cruise and sample what, at least on the TV travelogues, looks like haute cuisine. You're into that kind of thing, this should appeal to you!
The last cruise ship I was on was moored in the Victoria River for the 1986 Worlds Fair in Vancouver. Now there was a cool place. Their giant public market, which was at the end of the public light rail line and dangerously close to where our ship/hotel was docked was very cool.
And the world's fair was very good. The foods alone were quite illuminating. I can safely say, though, that while I've had chitlins before, I will never eat haggis again. Yuck. No amount of international gastronomy could prepare me for that. And I've eaten horsemeat in Northern Italy?
No, I think you need to take a break from all this traveling on land and take a cruise. I'm sure the Travel Channel people could help narrow the field down. After all, you're doinga show, but you're also showing your viewership places to go.
When I was 2, I traveled on a Holland America ship to visit my grandfather's relatives in Belgium. You haven't been there yet, have you? He was Flemish. There are two distinct cultures in that country. He hailed from the small town of Niel. Maybe if the cruise sounds too pedestrian for you (?), you could check out Belgium. Two words -- Chimay Ale. How bad can it be if monks make it? Good luck and I'll continue watching. 8 year old daughter Hattie says hey. She gets to stay up late on Monday for your show. She complained on the show on Japan, where you did the flower arranging, that you did too much talking. Hey, what do kids know? She almost memorizes everything said by that guy who lives in a pineapple under the sea, so take it with a grain of sea salt.
I'd ask you to come to Columbus Ohio, because we've got one of the great chefs here, Hartmut Handke (I think he's got a Michelin star) and pretty good cooking schools at Columbus State and the Bradford School (hey, there's an idea, how about a show on cooking schools, and not just CIA, although their Napa Valley Campus turns out some pretty good eats.)
Later
Sir--
Some of your best blog writing here. I'm glad you got to do a show about something that matters a lot to you personally.
Rest assured, these vanishing beauties will experience a sudden, if brief increase in patronage because of your visit. It's part of the benefits of a large and growing fan base. The show sounds like a lot of fun. We all have places in our favorite cities that are precious to us for the sake of nostalgia, if not the quality of the food.
One thing I'm grateful for is that you've never bothered with Toronto. We were there a couple of weeks ago, and walking through Kensington Market among the stalls carrying everything from durian and mangosteens to smoked squid and 16x12 foot walls of cheese (because Canada isn't paranoid about unpasteurized cheese), I reflected that a Kensington full of tourists would be a Bad Thing. It is a place that could only exist in a city that experiences waves of immigration from Italy and Portugal to Malaysia and Jamaica, all getting along in about a ten square block space.
I felt the same in Lawrence Market, walking past the vast and varied meat and fish sellers and purveyors of some of the most beautiful, fresh fruit and veggies that anyone can get their hands on at this time of year. Why bring in a bunch of tourists? These are the places that Torontonians call their own, that they patronize on a regular basis, and that have existed (in the case of Lawrence) for 150 years or so.
As much as I love your show, I love the "T" city even more. I do have a question, though. Did you know that less than two hours flight from New York you could get all of the delights of a traditional Asian Market? Just think, all these years, you could have made a quick flight, inhaled all of the durian you wanted, and made it home in time for dinner.
Ah, yes - raised in NY (outside Manhattan, but hey - even YOU didn't make it to The Island right away...), now a bone-a-fide Left Coaster.
The two things I still REALLY miss (and the first things i seek out when visiting "home") are
1) Good 'ol '70's spaghetti-and-meatballs Italian food - you know, the kind with the scalloped-edge paper placemats with the map of Italy on there?
and
2) a decent sandwich (none of this whole-grain/avacado/sprout,veggie"meat" stuff).
Not that I'd move back, mind you - I love it out here and overall the food is much better than on the East Coast (sorry...), but you're absolutely right - some things are irreplaceable and totally unique. And when everything else in this country is Sysco'd and franchised to death, ISN"T THAT NICE????
First the Philippines and now NYC! Back to Back goodness that's getting my dad excited. He was a student at St. John's during the late 60s/early 70s and always talked about how great New York was and how you can get a great meal whenever you want it (he won't stop talking about pastrami, pizza and the beef brisket).
So thanks again for the Philippines episode and the upcoming Disappearing Manhattan.
Hi Tony,
Out of curiosity....based from the responses you got from the Philippines episode, would you still consider coming back to the Philippines?
Thanks for a wonderful job with the Philppines episode. I am glad you and your crew were able to experience Filipino hospitality.
Hi Tony, you are delicious. I adore your show!!
Sara
Hi Tony,
I am looking forward to your show tonight. I was born on East 81st Street,and remember the good food..thanks for a great show!!
I have to say thank you Tony, for reigniting my passion for food. I love your show, your perspective and your attitude. And I agree with Sara there, you are delicious ;)
Audrea
Tony we're living vicariously through you every week; absorbing your ascerbic wit like manna from heaven and quietly cheering inside when you point your laser beam of derision at all that is phony and counter to good honest culinary tradition. Bravo! You Rock!
I am a super-fan, but man oh, man! was I ever disappointed by the Pac NW episode!!! Portland has soooo many wonderful and quirky places, and almost none are downtown, where you seemed to focus. Come back again!!! The beer & coffee alone is worth another trip to Portland
Tony!
I've read and watched you from the very beginning and, having been in the restaurant biz in New England in the early 80's, always loved your perceptions, recollections and wonderfully snarky sense of humor. Whether it's eating lamb testicles with the Bedouins, Blowfish sushi or a hot dog...you've freed us all from the tentacles of the Food Network! (God, I can't stand Rachel Ray!!!)
We all need a show that has a parental warning on it, repeatedly! Food Porn was the best you've ever done! Well...yeah! even better than the absinthe show!!
I don't recall you ever coming to San Francisco, maybe I missed it, but I don't think so. You should come and see. It's not all steakhouses out here! There's a ton of great stuff to try and wonderfully crazy people who prepare it. And if I couldn't tag along with you, I'd love to make some recommendations over a good bottle of Cote Rotie and share all of Northern California's goodness with you.
I'm looking forward to the NYC show. Shows like that always makes me feel strongly that the pizza out here sucks!!! Keep up the good work!
lol. i like how people are complaining about...Canada? I'm koreand and i was absolutely miffed that Tony was taken around Korea by an ABC (american born civilian) who took him...Karaoking? Yeah koreans do that a lot but ...-___-. He never got to eat the pork intestine spicy soup, Budae Jjigae, Kal noodles, and how he didnt even get to go to Muhk Jah Gol Mok (literally translated to: Lets EAT MARKETPLACE! which is..what you do...from cheap foods from awesome street vendors). He should have gotten a person who actually knows the area...a 'native' i suppose. Someone who actually has been living there for quite some time and has been there for the many changes korea has been going through. Like Chun Gae Chun...
...i dont think he even ate pigs feet. 슬프다...but w.e. whats done is done and nothing to do about it now.
by the way
the 'house of poo' chicken you ate...is not the area around the butt hole. definitely not. it may literally translate to that...but that's not what it is. and to eat those, you have to go to a street vendor who is actually KNOWN for it because its a pretty tough meat.
Can't wait to see it. I love a fell of back home and the NY episode was one of my favorites from a couple seasons back..
Great. Thanks for making my life that much harder by finding even more places to visit before I die. I mean each time I watch your show my bucket list just seems to grow. What are you doing to me?
Really though I am looking forward to seeing this episode. This is the type of travel journalism I want to write and publish if I can find a place where they will be able to handle my rants.
Dear Mr. Bourdain,
Besides Travel & Food, what made me have a somewhat connection with you was about how you read "TinTin" when you were young kid. I have all of his books. My question to you is, are you ever going to vist Burma or what is now known as Myanmar? I saw a clip of you while you were visiting in Washington D.C. at Travel Channel Headquaters and gave an impromptu q&a. You mentioned " Burmese & Ethiopian" and I was really hoping that you would visit one of the most beautiful countries in S.E. Asia. It would be great if you can put it on your list of travels unless you're fed up with their travel bureaucracies?
Best Regards~Kay
Mr. Bourdain,
Thank you so much for making an episode like this one, it was truly needed. The big cities have too much that's vanishing, especially what gave those cities their character. I'm currently right in the middle of watching it (at a commercial break right now), and it's already great.
Tony, when I saw the waiters at Hop Kee in the intro I just laughed my butt off. Its been a long time since I've been in New York, but that brought me back! As an Korean-American, I've been dining off the 'phantom menu' ever since my first time there. What's ironic is that you ate pretty much the same thing I eat every time go there! Crabs, snails, and flounder! Certainly I know that restaurant will not die.
Thanks for bringing those memories back!
Jon
Holland Bar is open again. New (ahem) bar, but the same neon
sign behind.
tony-
you make tv worth watching.
courtney
Loved this episode so much I watched it twice in a row. I LOVE NYC...thanks Tony!
Just how much backwash did you share with that dude while drinking that beer in the boot?
Loved the New York Episode! I watch your show all the time and I appreciate how genuine you are and how you spare us all the fake tourist crap. Even though I'm only 18, I too have always had an interest in cooking and learning about other cultures. I am 100% Armenian, and with that said, I am throwing a challange to Tony to do an espisode in Armenia, a long forgotten country rich in culture and old school traditions. Please let me know what you think :)
Tony the Tiger--I'm currently reading your Kitchen Confidential and felt extra inspired to put you in my recent blog post: http://tracychang.wordpress.com/ including pictures of my own "No Reservations"-esque experiences. I love a great challenge and share the thrills of trying new, exotic foods. Oh, and I too used to read Tin Tin (and have a cousin named Ting Ting!) Hope to meet you soon, amigo.
Entertaining episode... didn't you include this topic as a section in one of your books it seems familar? In any case when your great video crew filmed that lox and bagel I nearly dropped my dinner plate, which I balance on my knees while watch NR from my sofa. Dam I wanted the Lox and Bagel instead of my dinner...the nerve of you to show that during dinner time!!!!
Tony, I think you made a minor style error at the Heidelberg restaurant. I'm sure it's not bad for you, but you're supposed to skin the Weißwürste (the white pork and veal sausages) before eating them (did you have the sweet mustard? I hope so). Also, I don't know if it got you, but there's a trick to drinking from the boot: if you hold it toe up (as you appeared to do), beer gets trapped in the toe of the boot until a certain point, when it sloshes down and splashes you in the face. Your lunch partner correctly pointed the toe to the side, which prevents this surprise.
Do you even read comments Mr Bourdain? Do you really like MSG wonton soup?
What do you think of the Adria brothers? I WANT TO MEET ALBERT ADRIA. is he married? Sorry my comment is comparably immature compared to the essays the people above wrote.....
Thank you, for the disappearing Manhattan show.I just ate at a place, like the Veau d'or restaurant.The restaurant is
called the Stouch Tavern, est. 1785.It is in Womelsdorf, Pa. A guy in his 70's, made flambe' banana's foster and cherries jubilee,tableside.He also made caesar salad the old way, with the raw egg and the garlic crushed in the bowl. The last time I saw Celeri remoulade was in Vincent Price's cookbook from the 60's. Finally, I have a suggestion
for a show.The Pennsylvania Dutch country. All the mystery pig parts;scrapple,souse,tripe you can stand.The dutch are not what are represented on tv.
The NY show was really good. I would kill for one of those pastrami sandwiches!
Tony, the NY show was fun, and there were at least three places I'll plan to go to whenever I get back there! However, for one of these far West types, couldn't you show us a little 10 second map? I know more about Paris arrondissements than where the Lower East Side is! Help us out a little here!
And, fun though it always is to hear you revisit your history, I don't quite buy the "Chinatown is vanishing with the old traditional stuff" lines. Maybe in Manhattan, but even that I doubt. Certainly not anywhere else much in the rest of the US! Seems like menus have gotten bigger, and the formerly 'hidden stuff' now takes up pages to read, but the classic wonton(s) are everywhere still! --even if vanishing in Manhattan.
And, can you find some of those oldie/goodie deli type places nearby just outside of Manhattan? Curious...e.g. Queens (wherever that is!)
Loved the show Tony, thanks so much for doing it. This is what your show is all about. An NY without Katz's would be a sad place indeed, and the authenticity in the East Village is fading FAST. I've never been to Manganaro's or the German place you went to, but will be high tailing it to both places ASAP. BTW if you want a true dive bar, go to Mars Bar - now that is a DIVE. I'm sure as a fellow connoiseur of 80s punk rock you'll feel right at home (except for all the god damn hipsters that is).
I finally got to see the Beirut special. I'm a political specimen, myself; but I've never quite seen the real world as "realistic" as in this show. Chef, cook, engineer, whatever your profession, this was an amazing inside look at "real life" for those in Lebanon. I know this is not the right place to post this, but I felt compelled to post it regardless. Tony, I can only hope you can experience life as very few of us are able to. I'm sure it was terrifying, but look at what you can tell others. The experiences you've had in this situation will certainly allow you to express sentiments that so many others could not. While it was an unbelievable experience, it was certainly an invaluable one. I, myself, am glad that you were able to bring the "real life" back to those of us who take for granted the every-day life that we live everyday... the life that is so easy for us.
EVEN THOUGH IT WAS OUT OF YOUR CONTROL, THANK YOU AGAIN TONY!
Another great episode of NR. I now have to visit NYC and try and hit all of the places Tony went to (and Les Halles).
Katz's Deli made me want a deli sandwich while I was watching that part of the show.
Nice job on the History of NYC resturants.
Thank you thank you thank you!
My great-grandfather owned Katz's before it was Katz's (sold it to him) and I have only love for that place. Living in CA is difficult when one has memories of such a wonderful deli. You've at least now let me show (on tv) to my husband what I am gushing about when I speak of KATZ's.
:)
Oh yes. And my love of "Jew food" that no one out here seems to understand. Creamed herring at its finest.
I think I will make stuffed cabbage this weekend.
TONY- GREAT SPECIAL!! Your the best.
Katz’s pastrami sandwich that you showed was the most appetizingly prurient bit of food porn that I’ve seen yet on your show. (More! More! I’m still not satisfied!)
And you don’t dine with friends at Keen’s. Cronies would be more appropriate.
Great Show.
Thanks for the coverage on Le Veau D'Or- I've wanted to visit since I read your piece in the nasty bits..we used to have a couple of places like that that in San Francisco--Le Tri Colour & The Old Poodle Dog--both long gone...have you been to Tadich Grill in San Francisco? Oldest Restaurant in California, and I think you would like it....Best to you and family.
Blah, blah. blah, New York's old school eateries, blah, blah. Not that I don't love me some classic big apple establishments, but seriously Antonio, shock and awe us! I feel like you're missing a few key destinations and I know how much you love to hear from my crazy *** so get ready: TAKE ME TO **** AMSTERDAM. You've already granted whats-his-name his dream come true meeting up in the Philippines and he didn't even really know what was up. I like the guy, but for realz get some hot, jail-bait *** globe-trotting with you! I've been to the big A-DAM and I've got connections from left to **** right. Plus you got to make fun of me free of charge on national television, so I'm pretty sure you owe me. Just do it. You know all you need is a young and fabulous sidekick to bring back you're inner party monster. And honestly you'd have a much better time poking fun at my sensational madness in person. I'm smart, I'm travelled, I'm fun and I'm ready for anything, even you. Do you need me to send you another **** video? Seriously. Find me or forever miss out on the best time you've ever had on television.
xoxo
Okay, this was a good show.
Tony, inspiring pastrami sandwich cravings after 10PM is not cute. If it wasn't over 80 blocks south, I would have walked to Katz last night! Amazing episode and, as always, you are fabulous!
Tony,
I have to say I try to watch as much of your show as I can. Also, once being in the kitchens of the City and once having passed through the trials of your ol alma mater, I can see and feel what you say, when you go to the places that you've been. I have been outside of NY and the city itself for sometime now, and your show last night has Honestly made me homesick, and I never feel homesick. Everything from the pastrami at Katz and Hop Kee. My God man, I never would have imagined that my childhood restaurant would have ever been on tv let alone you show. My very first eggroll was from there, when the walls and ceiling were still stained yellow from the masses of folk still allowed to smoke while enjoying there meal with a newspaper and a shot of mautai. Everything you ate on the program is just about everything that I've had growing up. The Crabs and snails, The taste and the smell still haunt me today, and I try desparately to seek it out where I'm at in central Florida. Your show has truly brought me joy last night.
Great Show and I can't wait to go back to the ol'city and can't wait for more.
OK, guess what's for lunch today? Hopping on the subway and heading downtown to Katz's.
But, did I see Tony with a Cosmo? Also, he was sharing a beer? Oy Ve. :) Great show.
Tony, thanks for drawing attention to these old NY institutions that as you recognized, are the last of a dying breed. We old New Yorkers feel the importance of holding on to such traditions since we've had so many of them taken away from us in our lifetimes.
Remember the "Ideal" on 86th Street? That was a place I'm sure you wish was still around. I cried when it closed. I only hope that your show might kindle some respect in the people that are changing the face of Manhattan in the name of corporate progress. People still come to NY because of the places that made it great and if they all go away so will the charm that attracts people to the City. It's not good for anyone if they go away.
What is happening to the restaurants in NY is only one symptom of the corporate decimation of anything that had any charm in NY. If you take away its history, NY becomes like any other place in the world. You take away its heart and soul and what is left? Condos. and chain stores? The same bleakness of the suburbs? To me, that spells the end of NY. What these people don't realize is that they are destroying the very things that made NY so desirable in the first place. But they don't care about all that. If NY is not so unique and desirable in generations to come what do they care? It's this attitude that is ruining NY, and it is unprecedented in its history.
There has always been change in NY but not on the present scale and not aimed at its heart and soul. I just wish more people with power and influence would take up the cause of preserving NY's institutions. How hypocritical that there would be historical societies in NY but that they don't seem to care about its eateries. I have roots in NY going back to 1830 - My great, great grandfather owned a billiard hall near City Hall. In my 50 years I have seen a lot of change. It started out a quaint and exciting place that turned seedy in the 70s and 80s, but at least it still had its heart and soul. Now NY is being turned into a playground for no one but very rich trust fund babies. How regrettable - NY was always a place for immigrants. We need our middle and lower classes to give the place character. Thanks so much for recognizing that and discussing it on your show - Something not too many people seem to be concerned about these days!
Tony,
Thank You for last nite's show, as someone who grew up in Northern N.J. and made my way into "the city" as a kid in the 60's, I used to eat at many of the spots you highlighted.
Manganero's was my favorite for so many years. I really miss going there not only to eat, but for the entire environment.
Is The Gem Spa still located in the East Village, the BEST egg cream around, bar none!
I have been living in Wisconsin since I escaped from the craziness of the Garment World of my youth and family, but to say I truely miss points of NYC would be an understatement.
Thank You again for bringing fond memories of local eateries that would draw me back.
If you're ever seeking really good Bratwurst on a hardroll, I'm right here in the Capital of that wonderful, sizzling cylinder of pork and spices!
Keep up the great shows.
Now that I have seen every No Reservations episode waiting for Monday night is torture! Though watching the show has made me realize that most of the junk that I have been eating is a form of self punishment. Merci. It’s time to spend more time in the kitchen and frequenting great restaurants! I intend to drive to NYC just to visit Le Veau D’Or! A three-hour drive is no big deal, as a meal there will feel like I am in France – a few decades ago.
Je t’adore!
Mr Bourdain:
Love all of your shows but watched this one with tears in my eyes. My Dad grew up in Hell's Kitchen and I have some great memories of him taking us around the city when we were kids and showing us his New York of the 40's. Lox and eggs, pastrami on rye, sable - you brought it all back. Thanks.
Went to NYC for the first time in my life for my 10th anniversary in 2006. We ate at Keenes, Katz and few other "old New York" places. Last night's show was brilliant. These places are what food, fun and NYC are all about for me. Tony, keep up the good work!
I loved this segment. One of our dreamers is planning a trip to New York and I am trying to find where this show might be archived or shown again, so she can watch it. She loves the movie When Harry met Sally and we told her she has to go to Katz, who's website is the best btw. Is there a place where the travel channel lists when it is re-airing a segment?
Thank you for such a great show.
Catherine
Tony
Great NY episode, made us wish we were on the east coast again. Not to go to these places, but the other secret restaurants. We'll bring you to the best Korean place(secret)when you're in Portland. Mostly North Korean menu,
The woman that runs it more or less adopted my Korean wife, she just tells us what to eat, and we do...its killer
be well
Tony, did you hear the sounds coming from my husband and I in "the West" last night? The head cheese, Katz's, etc. the noise was so great the cat jumped and ran. Keep it up, please.
tony - when are you going to do a "no reservations taiwan?" dying for this! please!! please!!
tony, it is sad to watch something that was good or even great at times, just get worse and worse. so depressing. do you own the building?
Another great episode!
And my dad agrees, NYC late 60s/early 70s were the best. Now he can't stop yappin about New York (him) vs San Francisco (me) food scene!
Tony - Just watched you get a deep tissue massage in Uzbekistan... funniest thing I have ever seen on TV! YOU ROCK!
Tony, To add to what I've said above, I loved this episode. Please do another one about the disappearing borough eateries, like Arthur Avenue in the Bronx (Mike's Deli and the open air market, Dominick's and the Egidio and Delillo bakeries, etc.) and Cornyn's Coach and Four just over the line in Yonkers on Broadway - A classic that is just hanging on for dear life. I'm sure you could find more in Brooklyn and Queens too.
BTW, I have been to every one of the places you featured in this episode save for Veau d'Or, although I'd heard of it. I didn't even know Manganaro's was still there. It brought a tear to my eye as I used to go there often as a kid. Have to make a pilgrimage now! Thanks again, Tony!
Tony,
Your Chinatown visit made me wistful and nostalgic. I remember San Francisco Chinatown in the 60's -- the dishes being served in big covered metal containers, with the waiters lifting the covers at the table.
I particularly remember a dish of thick-sliced abalone interspersed with black mushrooms in a delicious sauce (no doubt from the “phantom” menu) -- a dish we'll probably not see again. In those days only the Chinese and Italians ate abalone, and it was in abundance.
"Peter Luger? You can have it. Grand Central Oyster Bar? Good luck." In these dire times of disappearing NYC institutions and fraying history, those are reckless, irresponsible and, dare I say, stupid remarks. If you don't like these place, fine. Just keep your mouth shut. Whether you agree or not, the City would be poorer without Peter Luger and the Oyster Bar. Oh, and I also thing the food is pretty good at both.
Tony:
Keep on changing and experimenting. I've never been to NY, but San Francisco and Berkeley area still has some of its icons hanging on since my college days. "The only sure thing is change," is sometimes painful to those of us over fifty. Your writing and observations are just plain delicious in this episode. Your normally silver fox hair not so much. Rock on!
Thank you so much for paying tribute to Keens. I have fond memories of eating there as a little girl in the late 50s and early 60s with my mom and dad. They were considered regulars even though they were originally from Rutherford, New Jersey, and by the time I was with them, they were visiting from Jamestown, Rhode Island. We received plum pudding every Christmas for years in an earthenware dish emblazoned with the Keens logo. I think I still might even have one of the small clay pipes they gave to youngsters as mementos of their visits. I think a road trip for a mutton chop may be in my future!!
Thank you for such a great show on the older restaurants of the New York I grew up in forty years ago! When I saw you having dinner at Keene's Chop House, it brought back a flood of memories of my parents going there before the theater. It was the same, nothing had changed; and every minute of the show was a wonderful memory. To me, it was one of the best shows you have done!
Tony
I agree with all of the positive comments about your Disappearing Manhattan episode. There are many a food places that I miss just for their ambiance(the Woolworth lunch counter across from Macy's with the wonderful waitresses) and especially all of the great dive bars. Spent far too many hours at the Aztec on 9th btwn 1st & A back in the 80's. Thanks for a great episode and excellent series!! Brought back some great memories of time in the city.
Take the train to New Haven sometime and I'll show you around!!!
cheers, charella
I'm happy you addressed the issue of our NYC that is slowly being destroyed by the unchecked yuppie invasion. I grew up in the Bronx and have been away for some time now. Every visit brings me both joy and so much saddness. It's horrifying to see things become so gentrified and to lose so many mom and pop establishments. I knew NYC was truly dying on my last visit when I saw that The St. Mark's Hotel now sports gold columns and Hawaiian shirted midwesterners. This was an area that was the dirty, punk infused ying to Greenwich's funky, rainbow flag yang. My only hope is that somewhere in this economic mess we'll be able to reclaim our city and cease the endless construction of condos and chains before places like Alphabet City get bulldozed for the ultimate sign of the beast...a Wal-Mart.
Hey Tony,
I really enjoyed reading your blog on Manhattan.
I'm pretty sure my memories of NY would fill pages, I guess that's what you get when you jam the entire population of Aust. into one city. So I'll just
mention that the interior of Manganaros looks EXACTLY like the deli down the road from where I grew up in Brisbane. We used to go there for a ham roll after Mom did the shopping.
It's hot and sunny here again today. I looked outside and noticed all the dandelion seed blowing in the wind. It gave me a strange sense of deja vu.
Last time I saw them dancing in the sunlight was the drive between Niagara and NY. They brushed against the windscreen and swirled in eddies in the gutters. They always mean hope to me. Picking them as a kid, making a wish and blowing the seeds away.
Hope you're somewhere warm.
DELIGHTFUL MAGICAL HISTORICAL EARTHLY REVERENCE
THANK YOU FOR NICK TOSCHES- GOOD TO SEE HIM AGAIN
Tony, love your show, my wife and I never miss it. As lifelong Brooklynites, we loved the Disappearing Manhattan. We're only in our mid-30s, but old enough to remember some of what you and your guests on the show talked about. We miss Coney Island High on St. Marks place the most. I'm shocked you didn't hit a pizza joint, but I'd bet you can do an entire two-hour show just on that. Any plans for a Brooklyn episode? Wish I had your job, since you do three things we love in eating, traveling and writing. Our wishes for continued success with the show.
This was a great show. I wish I can live in NYC. The best food is there.
This is one of the best shows on TV. I never get tired of watching the older episodes either.
I could probably agree that the dining room at the Oyster Bar is overpriced and the food unexceptional. But good grief, haven't you ever sat at the horseshoe counter for lunch? Amazing people watching (of all backgrounds and type, as you like it), ancient waitresses in neat uniforms, a view of the manic kitchen, fresh ice tea, and a fantastic fried oyster sandwich. My idea of food heaven. The soups and stews ain't bad either! (The ladies room has a coach in the shape of giant lips and a giant hand chair. Too bad you haven't been privy to that!) Otherwise, thank for a great show.
Mr. Bourdain
Love your show. I realize you live in New York, but where is the west coast love? You know we have great places to eat too! I've never seen a show out west. What's the deal? Maybe I just missed it. Although now you are in the DVR catalog, so maybe it's just yet to be seen.
You're a true treasure! Keep up the excellent work!
Chef, I am currently a student YTI Career Centers in the culinary program, Lancaster, PA. I would have to say we have a large fan base here at our institute. I was wondering how we would be able to get someone like yourself to come into our establishment as a guest speaker for one day to discuss the culinary world?
What a great show! I can't wait to get back to NYC and retrace a few of these steps with my dear NYC brothers (Eric and Jeff) in tow. In the meantime, YOU might want to check out my food show. It's the Buffalo sort 'o version of No Res except with this No Res FANatic, yours truly, in the lead. Come laugh AT me: "All Access Pass with Nelson Starr" at www.truebluebuffalo.com ...and see ya later in the season on TB-NR!!
Tony's the MAN! Love your show every week, especially the 'disappearing manhattan' feature. I'm a radio dj in Eastern NC and travel to the big apple every year for the US Open Tennis and love trouncing around Central Park and eateries like Benito II on Mulberry St., Lombardi's, Harry's Burrito upper west side, downing suds and shots at Live Bait bar Madison Square Park, a hot dog at Papaya King, a sandwich and a brew at Empire Diner, but I got to visit Manganaro's Grosserie Italiano as well as Keen's. I want to move to Manhattan so bad I can taste it, love the place. Keep up the fantastic work Tony, you're very inspiring!
I think you should have titled THIS episode "Food Porn!" I was salivating all over my treadmill while watching it! Thanks for providing my next New York City trip itinerary!
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Tony, I absolutely loved the show! However, you forgot one seriously awesome NYC institution. PRIME BURGER! On E. 51st. You know the oil in the fryers hasn't been changed in 20 years, but that's what makes it great.
Just saw the preview for the Manhattan show and noticed that the boot Anthony was drinking out of had a HB written on it. It makes me believe that he was in the Hoffbrau Haus. Is this true? I was born in Germany and frequent back to see my family every year. I beleive the culinary cuisine in Southern Germany is top notch, yet have never seen or heard the mension of Germany on the show. Any plans to make the voyage? From a felow foodie, Grandma makes some mean Maultaschen, Tripe soup, etc. And the beer. There is a little twon in the Southern Albs called Trochtelfingen, were a little brewery/restauran.gasthaus is located. Man the food and beer. Jeez, I think I'm gettng excited. Anyway, have enjoyed reading and viewing the many adventures and misadventures....Keep up on the keeping us up.!!!!
Great show on Manhattan; Looking forward to the next.
Loved the NY show.
no matter where we've lived, we make a regular "pilgramage" to a number of those favorite haunts you hit to get our NY fix. With travel, hotel, transportation etc, we've spent hundreds of dollars just for a trip to Katz's. No place can replicate that. Of course a hot dog while you are waiting for your Pastrami Sandwhich doesn't hurt.
How about doing a show opposite that. Say the Brooklyn culinary movement as covered by the NYT recently: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/dining/25brooklyn.html I live in Greenpoint and what's happening here needs to be covered. Who else but you to do so?
Oh my Gosh man! I loved this episode, but I was so upset about Holland bar being closed? When did that happen? I was so sad. Where does one go for beer @ 9am in Hell's Kitchen? LOL! Sophies once cashed my paycheck from a local coffee shop! Are bars like that still open? What a great episode. It brought back some of my NYC experiences of dive bars and great food shops. Bourdain Rocks!-BA
Tony..what an episode! Long live NYC, and thank God there are still a lot of undeniably awesome places to find good people and incredible food!
Tony, or whoever reads these, I loved the last episode of No Reservations. But if you are disappointed that the grit is being polished in New York City then you should come to Detroit. With the country sinking lower and lower into recession Detroit's dive bar scene is getting better and better. The neighborhoods of Hamtramck and southwest Detroit have some of the coolest, untouched, creaky, and scary dive bars. The people are real, and you can still smoke in some (the scene where you guys were outside smoking was painful). Anyway, Detroit's old haunts are coming back, sit up and take notice. thanks
Tony, when are we going to see a show on Israel?
I saw you eat an amazing crispy roast pork on this show, what restaurant was this please?
Tony, this was a fantastic episode that made me very nostalgic and antsy to get back to good old NYC. I recently moved away (supposedly temporarily) to Arizona and have missed the food of New York so much! I can't wait to get back but in the meantime, it was nice to have a little bit of the city with me, even if it was for just an hour.
Great episode--Russ and Daughters can't be beat. Thinking about the store, I now have an insatiable craving for their Super Heeb sandwich. A drive into the city may be in order!
I have a lot of respect for what you do in regards to touring so many amazing countries while maintaining respect for their culture... but I also don't get what the deal is behind your vitriolic sentiment towards vegetarians? I wrote you a letter about it on my website, actually.
Loved this episode...
when you went to Katz's, you passed the Essex Market, which may still be a big farmers type market on Delancy St. Used to go there with either my mom or grandma when I was a little girl, 50/60 years ago. I wish you would have showed it. Or maybe not. Maybe it's not what it was.
Saved this episode on my DVR. I miss my home, miss Katz's, Balducci's, Orchard St (Prospect Pl in Brooklyn...pushcarts and markets in the 50s), just simple dirty old streets and storefronts with surprising artifacts in them, like the store that had a myserious wrestlers belts and broken chains and pictures. I miss it all. I see NYC is becoming so too too. What are they doing to my city?
Dear Tony,
We are three foodie bloggers that have set up a bimonthly foodie book club called Cook the Books (cookthebooksclub.wordpress.com). We choose a book, people read it, then cook something inspired from the book and blog about it. So far we have had the privilege of the authors themselves (Lily Prior and Diana Abu-Jaber) choosing the winner. Our next book pick is Kitchen Confidential and the deadline is 25th of April. We know that you are a very busy man, but it would be a great honour, if you could judge the entries yourself. Please let me know if that would be possible. Thank you so much in advance.
thanks for a wonderful episode" disappearing manhattan".. very informative and quite sentimental. also thanks for augusto for bringing mr. bourdain for an epidode in the philippines where he gets to sample quote unquote " the best pig ever", congatulations on your best episode ever and as a filipino working abroad, i just wanna thank mr. bourdain for giving us a little slice of our culture, it really makes us empowered. again, mr. bourdain, thank you and keep up the good work. MABUHAY KA, MR. BOURDAIN.
as a longtime new yorker i love your passion for new york & the new york attitude to everything you do. the NYC episode was long overdue and very appreciated. Youve given me new, yet old, places to check out, but i can proudly say ive done Katz's pastrami on rye w/ a pickle. Let's do what we all can to keep these places alive, with so few vestiges left! (Hail CBGBs!) Youve inspired me to take my aging parents on a day eating our way through Manhattan, following your list one by one, as many as we can. Thatll be a day to remember ;)
& dont forget the Pickle Guys on Essex, around since 1910.
Keep rockin hotshot- you da best!
Anthony,
The Manhattan episode was great! It was really awesome to see where you grew up and where you came from :D The whole out with the old and in the new phenomenon is happening here too in Northern San Diego and it is really heartbreaking to see community staples vanish.
Also, I saw you last night in Palm Desert and your "show" was absolutely amazing! It was really rad to hear how you transitioned from A Cook's Tour to No Reservations and how your book changed your life, and the other little bits that I didn’t know about just watching your show or reading your books. Also I got to see your glory in person, which is really rad.
But there were a few problems, the audience members that asked questions were imbeciles; most of them anyways. The guy who asked "which do you prefer, no legs, 4 legs or 8 legs" needs to go off himself. Oh and you not signing my "Cook Free or Die" picture; but that’s okay. You were being bum rushed and that guy was pulling you off stage.
The question I wanted to ask you was:
When and how did you come up with your concept of food porn? I thought that would have been interesting, but the moronic audience probably wouldn’t have found it so.
Anyways, I really had a great time and it was well worth the 2 hour drive to get to Palm Desert.
And, you should totally come to San Diego! We have the best Mexican food; my abuela can cook for you some time :D We could also take you to TJ, you could do another US/Mexico border shows on the California border.
Also, I kind of want to vomit because I just watched that Sandra Lee Kwanzaa cake bit and that looked disgusting. The apple pie filling that she puts in the middle of the angel food cake was HORRIBLE and she wasn’t to amped on it either. When she tasted it she looked like she just ate some boar rectum :P Anyways, my eyes didn’t go up in flame but they were sure close.
You are amazing,
Polett S
A message from a past and future guest on No Reservations: This FANatic, me, that briefly appeared on the Saudi Arabia and Philippines episodes ...and will surprise you again!... has his very own food show. YOU might want to check it out. It's the Buffalo sort 'o version of No Res except with a No Res FANatic - yes, yours truly - in the lead. Come laugh AT me, see: "All Access Pass with Nelson Starr" at www.truebluebuffalo.com ...and see ya later in the season on TB-NR!!??
Tony, love your shows and can't wait to see you at the grand Tennessee Theatre in April!! Sorry our humble little town doesn't have too much in the way of incredible food history like towns you have been to and are used to, but at least you found cause to visit and I can't wait!
tony, you're slipping.
just watched the disappearing manhattan show. great show, but i gotta say: you're slipping. what's up with SHARING a boot of beer with your buddy? get your own!
Sadly we can't view your show in UK but 'Disappearing Manhattan' is a cause close to our hearts. In fact, we have done a short film about Zabar's, one of our favourite food stores. We are trying to record the history of similar places in London. www.talkingoffood.com
TONY! You should have gone to Barney Greengrass Upper West side. Best chicken soup and lox in NYC! ANd the place is older than dinasaur poop.
Shannon, he already went to Barney Greengrass either on another episode of No Reservations or on Cook's Tour. I forget which one, but I know he went there.
I would love to be able to see the show, but hell I live in Germany, we get to see Jamie Oliver dubbed into german instead!
My wife and I were at Katz' in November. I don't care what bad things could be said of it - "Harry, Sally and all those pickchers" - the pastrami alone is reason enough to move to NYC.
And Russ & Daughters was everything Calvin Trillin had me hoping it would be, ever since I read my first book he wrote.
Hello
I want to start off by saying that I must be crazy to love you and your show so much considering I am a vegetarian and you are always bashing me and my fellow animal lovers. For some reason I just can't stop watching, and would give just about anything to meet you! I love your work and your personality. Second, I am going to New York for the first time in a few months and just wanted to know, where is the first place I should go upon arriving? And what is something that I could not possibly miss out on while I am there??
I'm relatively new to the Bourdain groupie cluster*** but I'm just as enthusiastic a fan as anyone. I don't recall which episode my husband and I happened on, but I had to let you know - like discovering a new flavor or food that becomes a daily frenzied obsession - this is how much I love your show, your attitude and now I'm reading your first book and loving that, too. You are terrific!
I think what I love best is how much you love food, real food, people food, how you always show respect for who and what should be respected and your disdain for the overblown bull (but always with appropriate respect for effort). You humble yourself to the effort and love involved in the endeavor and while I watch you I feel proud of you.
I imagine I'm like many of your fans, I love food, I love talking about it, discovering new, rediscovering old, planning, making and serving. I love eating it, but often I do most of my eating in the course of making for everyone else. I think I love that best of all because I can make the best, the most time consuming, the most ornate, extreme and fussed over for the brood. I bake fabulously and while I have always cooked damned well, I'm aspiring to better now, going back to my Spanish and Jewish roots, with you as an example, rediscovering greens, beans, odd cuts and the mighty beast, pork.
I thank you for your knife advice in your book and I thank you again for your attitude to our fellow men and women of the world, you respect, eat and bring it all back to me for me to understand and maybe someday try myself.
Thank you Anthony Bourdain!
New York the New York you and I love IS GONE!!!!!!!!!! Have you walked down 4th street between 2nd and 3rd? All those wonderful dark places are gone!!!! The mystery, the magic the allure is gone!!!!! I miss it!!! I want it back!!!!! Thanks for this episode.
mr bourdain, I love your show,,,the segment recently on disappearing Manhattan made me actually want to go there. I have traveled greatly, but never been tempted by NYC, Le Veau D'or was heavenly. however, all that being said, I am ashamed of you for not acknowledging that the plain old fashioned bars all died with the "no smoking" ordinance that the anal mayor of NYC imposed on his constituents, it was indeed a death toll for many, many, many bars,,,,,and you know it,,,fess up. I certainly respect no smokers and glad to see you did,,,,but I am older than you and smoke,,,,I used to spend thousands in bars and restaurants all the world,,,now I spend hundreds. this is the result of narrow minded people that fail to see that there are other ways to deal with this issue. the bars would come back quickly if there were both no smoking and smoking bars. sad, but the old fashioned bar is going to die soon. most are already dead as you have found,,,but the reason is simple,,,face it.
Tony, Whether you grew up in NY, as I did, or a transplant to the Big Apple, these places are the bedrock of what makes the city the greatest culinary experience in the country. May they all live another 100 years. They're not only an experience in NYC history but they have great food to back it up. Skip MOMA and hit one of these places. The visual art is much better and, without a doubt, the food is better. Great job Tony! You've made me home sick, I'm checking the calendar for an open weekend to head back.
Hey Tony...
Rachel Ray "absolutely loves" you. Aren't you touched?
From US Mag...
"I absolutely love Tony Bourdain," Ray says. "I have an enormous amount of respect for him. It's a free country."
i have never been to new york but would love to come someday! i thinkk you are a real hard-ass, speak your mind kind of a person. personility....great! i love you and tha show. and hats off to your crew. you all make a great team!!! keep it comin!
Le Veau D'or: in the '50s I used to go there from CT. The phone # was Templeton 8-8133-9649. I am glad to know it remains the same. I have a card from there with other memorabilia under glass on guest bath counter - it is of Le Veau Dort. And Chinatown. We'd go there, stand in line on the sidewalk, eat at trestle tables with newspaper "cloths" One time we were attempting eating with chopsticks and the Chinese at the end of same table were eating with silverware.
Memories of a time long ago - thanks for a good show JB
Finally! A reason to watch tv again. "NO Reservations".
tony!
i know that you're coming to chile on march 16, unfortunately i don't understand why you're visiting us in sucha hurry, you should stay more than just one day, that's how you are really going to know our cuisine, and understand chilean culture.
also, you're just vising santiago, and there's so much more to see than just the capital, you should visit valparaiso were chile's real gastronomic culture is, also viña del mar and concon, you wont regret it, finally i'll love to invite you to my house for some old fashion typical chilean food.
i hope you reply this message to me, i would love to see you around here.
by the way, i watch the show every week
Tony,
Hey! If you miss authentic Malaysian food, you're more than welcome to join my family and I in Jersey for Malaysian food that you can't get anywhere else in the States. I'm only 45mins away. I know you'll love my mom's Laksa (grandma's secret recipe).
ps- I can't seem to find a "E-mail to Anthony Bourdain" button here so this is where I'm shouting out to. See ya!
I enjoy your show and admire you, but don't understand you fawning about that bad French food in the lost Manhattan episode.Somethings change because they need to. Like canned celriac and mayonaise salads or peach melba with canned peaches. Come to Kentucky, let's have some bourbon and discuss..
Anthony
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Sri Lanka: great episode. Catches everything, including the status anxiety of the Burghers -- Tony's faux pas and all, which was left hanging in a way that you happily don't edit out. I wish the editors had given a little more time to the final meal, though: it felt somehow short-changed. This was a blank slate for Tony, and for many viewers, which makes it even more interesting.
Weird to see it in the context of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore: from the frying pan to the fire. And it reminds me of how Kashmir would be a place worth putting on the itinerary under more peaceful circumstances.
My friend recently informed me that you HAVE been to downtown Detroit to film some stuff so kudos! But I see you're slacking... new week, same post. You gotta get on the people that write your blog.
Russ & Daughters, I would do anything to have am everything bagel and lox right now. Can they ship it? LOL! Tony Thanks again for this episode!
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Tony, hope you enjoyed the warm hospitality of the Sri Lankans as much as you did the food!! Being from Sri Lanka originally (now living in Los Angeles) it was a trip to hear your comments about the crows, guns, the heat, tut-tuts, and the culture. Very impressed with your ability to handle spicy food!! :) If you are in Los Angeles and looking for some Sri Lankan food, try the Curry Bowl in Tarzana. Hole in the wall place that serves all of the authentic dishes. Happy travels!!
After watching this episode, I'm planning an "eat-my-way-through-disappearing-Manhattan" trip.
Also, Tony, we really enjoyed having you in Durham, NC last week! Keep doing what you do!!!
Tony -
Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your writing and your shows. I figure you're probably narcisstic enough to read the hundreds of comments on your blog.
I managed kitchens and traveled South East Asia in my early twenties and you definitely touch the core of these experiences in your writing and your show.
My favorite part about your show is the narration. You are an insightful writer and I hope for more inspired books.
I meant to call you narcissistic with correct spelling, and in a good way.
Has San Francisco faded away? I see you will be "performing" at the Flint Center in Cupertino at the end of May... anything of the like happening in SF? I hope!?
Ni Hao Tony,
I am a part time cooking instructor in Denver, CO. I enjoy watching your show and the destinations that you travel to. If you are ever going to do a show for Denver, you must come to my cooking class. I teach how to make Chinese dumplings from scratch. I am originally from China and all the recipes are from my family. The dumplings are delicious and to die for.
I loved this episode--brings back memories of when I first visited Chinatown. Hop Kee was actually the first restaurant in New York, nay, in America,I ate in, and I'm not even Chinese! Their snails are amazing and the spareribs.I should have went to a Filipino restaurant first, for patriotism's sake, but Hop Kee was calling to me
Tony, you were sitting right behind me when you were having dimsum last weekend in my neck of the woods. I was like "what the?! No way!
I won't utter where it was. Good to see you in the flesh.
Tony:
I'm a New Yorker born and breed. i've been to every continent and have seen most major cities/regions in the world.That said the number one place on the planet is Cape Town, SA. I'm actually quite shocked your covered countries that don't even come close. Listen i was impressed and loved Thailand and Vietnam but South Africa has soo much to offer. Cities, wine regions, Casino/entertainment, surfing, whale watching, shark diving, scenary, up scale shopping, local african crafts AND not to mention Safari. Especially CT it's absolutely gorgeous. it's similar to san francisco where you have a cosmopolitan feel with natural elements, you have wine region similar to Napa Valley, you have coast line similar to pacific hwy 1 BUT better and prettier and not to mention the diverse sophisticated cuisine in all of the continent i'm telling you, you ain't seen, experienced anything like south africa.
Ask anyone around the country and they will have a favorite bland, greasy-spoon diner or old school dining establishment where the wallpaper and menu was last updated when fringe bellbottoms were still thought to be cool. They know the waitress the the blue hair who asks if you want gravy on your deep fried lard.
Katz's better not fade away -- unless the Mayan calendar is true. That means we have two more years of great pastrami!
I can't wait for the Vietnam show this coming Monday!!!! woot!
Great show. However, I disagree with your blog about the Oyster Bar.
Tony, seeing you eating at some of NYC's classic old eateries, including Keen's (mutton chop - ohhh), Katz's (call me a heathen, but I always preferred the roast beef sandwich there) and Heidelberg's (Schweineshaxe or Jagerschnitzel - oh, the decision!) which are among my favorites, made me whimper with longing for the city I used to live in.
I can't believe you just walked past Nom Wah Tea Parlor, home of the best dim sum in NYC, though - and for a meal of crap Middle America fake-Chinese which the TGI McFunster crowd can get anywhere from Pig's Knuckle, Arkansas to Wasilla, Alaska, and which makes me want to gouge my tongue out with a rusty fork when a non-New Yorker friend proposes "having Chinese"? Tony, Dude - you've been to Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu - and had Chinese meals I would kill to get to eat! Put down the egg roll and ::shudder!:: sweet&sour pork, step away from the table, and keep your hands where we can see them - it's really for your own good, man...
Tony, thank you for creating a show that inspires and educates people about world culture through your critical culinary eyes. No Reservations has opened up a world that some people loss over time or never even had to begin with. I have now started traveling the United States, eating authentic local foods and talking to people from those area's, trying to get a true sense of who and what these places are about. Boston and Washington have been awesome experiences. My next stop is New York City. although I live on Long Island, I never do New York City right.
Thanks for the inspiration.
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I adore NY. I am visiting the father there. The city is only in the world.
Great episode! i enjoyed reading every single word!
There have been countless times that you have caused me no little consternation friend, with your continuing barrage of disparaging remarks against the animal-friendly/veggie populace...though oft irrate, your crusty old soul seemed akin and in tune with mine. There are few who have made it through such struggles, yet some rare gems who can see life with the humorous/cynical/sarcastically dark and bitter light that a former NYC junkie punk can... you mon frer are an inspiration, and a constant reminder to keep it real and never sell-out....some say you may have - I say definately not, you are still true to the mentality of a long-gone genre..todays punk is just sell-outs making pop albums with mohawks. Where did we go wrong?? What ever happened to the passion of the punk spirit..instead of a passion for the punk fashion??? So I'd like to say "here, here..old man, the next one's on me"!!! Stay real.....
I agree with a lot of people who say that on some level, there are places in NY that are disappearing, and a lot of what we knew is being replaced by bank branches and frozen yogurt shops (there are a goddamn lot of them lately, I can't figure it out). Along with this, the old school home style cooking is being replaced by new home style cooking with different immigrant communities. There is an easy romanticizing of the immigrant communities of old: the Italians, the Germans, Jewish eastern european folk (and Scandinavians further back). It would be cool to see an "Appearing NY" by contrast, to take a look at the Carribean, African, Latino, and a whoooole lot more people coming in these days. I love pastrami sandwiches and old school Italian food, because you know what you're getting. It's funny that trying new things in your own city is sometimes more difficult than going to a foriegn country to figure it out, but that's probably the reason why I eat and hang out in more or less the same places since birth. Park Slope and the Village are easier to know than East NY and Washington Heights.
And think also o' this - there is a whole punk rock world growing up in the neighborhoods we haven't touched yet. Probably not the same aesthetic as the East Village/LES in the 70s, but there are movements happening which haven't been found yet. New Joe Strummers born in Brownsville...
Just some thoughts. Like everyone else, I'm not sure that you read this, but thought I'd poke my head up anyway. It'd be pretty cool if you did. Thanks for being a personality and for making me like new things.
And since people can't seem to post without some kind of food throw-down, there's no way DiFara's is better than Grimaldi's (which I still call Patsy's). C'MOWN
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Photographed a wedding at the Russian Tea Room last week. While on a location scouting trip before hand, my friend Alex from Latvia and I decided to visit one of the places featured in the Vanishing NY show. We ended up at Manganaro's and had the lasagna. It was very, very good! We were the only people in the place, and the experience was fantastic! Thanks for a great show, and we look forward to seeing you in Cape May someday.
It was a great episode. Thanks! Loved it.
Disappearing Manhattan was amazing. I could tell that a lot of thought & heart was put into this show, much in the same way these old places do their business.
Thanks very much for your excellent, intelligent, funny show.
best show ever! I love NY!
Cool show!
I went to Manganaro's for lunch while on a business trip to NYC a few weeks ago. My friend has been going there for a year or longer - I haven't been back to NYC since 9/11.
Anyway he told me all about it and I said I had to have lunch at a real NYC place. We went there and the people there are super awesome and my sandwich was amazing. I wanted to get something I can't get back home in San Francisco and got not just a sandwich that rocked but an experience that reminded me why I love NYC so much!!! NYC ROCKS!
greatest show ever
When I watched your episode in the Philippines, how I envied you having the delicious roasted pig,surely the best. Whenever I go visit my homeland, I never forget to have it in my table. My husband would enjoy watching it cooked before him. We enjoyed your shows.
More power and good health to you too!
Ah me, there's no place in this episode that wouldn't have an equivalent in Chicago -- and we need the all. These old landmarks are the necessary, homey counterpoint to all the new places in town (and all that chemistry-lab cuisine with its foam of this and gel of that -- pfui! There's no there there to sink you teeth into, folks) and a reality check on many of them. Come out to Chicago soon, Tony, and you'll find lots of stuff you love -- and it **won't** be limited to our Top Chef winner of two seasons ago, darling Stephanie, or the Vienna hot dogs, pan pizza, Italian ice or the great Italian beef, either. 'Nuff said.
I was born in Vietnam but lived in the new york for the past 20 years. The best city in the world.
What is the name of the German restaurant that Tony featured in this episode?
I just wanted to thank you for comming to the philippines especially Pampanga and eating at Aling Lucing the sisig queen.. She was my grandmother, and while i was watching you i was so happy to know her love for food was enjoyed by you.....thank you so much ...
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I just saw Disappearing Manhattan and for the first time in 4 years I am homesick. You hit all of the places that mean NY to me. The original Manganaro's - not Hero Boy. Russ and Daughters!!! The best, best Nova anywhere. I could go on and on - Katz's, Heidelberg - even Le Veau d'Or. You hit all of my favorites! Thanks so much!!!
What is the name of the German restaurant that Tony featured in the Disappearing Manhattan episode?
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I think New York is going to have to change considerably before any "New" Classics open (notable restaurants that become legends).... I think NYC has gotten so corporate, almost Disney Land'ish... that maybe the recession can bring back the realness, the glamorous grittiness, the survivalist city that New York once was, and amongst the change, the quality, affordable, maybe a handful of true Neo-landmarks will emerge.
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moving uptown and upmarket killed luchows. If you want German food, go to Rolf's.
Thank you for useful information. With love ...
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I love Vietnam, I love New York and I love your jab. Thanks Tony.
Great episode! i enjoyed reading every single word!
You need to see Guam.Check out there cuisine.Ask about the coconut crab and how they catch it.If its still legal.Was there as a kid in the seventies.Also try pickled papiya.Lotsa good eats in Guam.Fresh water caves,pristine beaches.
Great New York episode, made me wish I was back in the USA on the visitor exchange program. Not a student anymore though. Maybe will try to visit NY in the future - Le Veau D'O sounded/looked good.
Hey, Tanie Bilety Lotnicze can i go with you?
Roughly, (ingredients only, no need to pull up a whole recipe), what was used to make the braised pernil?
But if you can't have one of the kooky-great times of your life at this absolutely untouched by time frog pond -- with its delightfully irony-free, 60-year-old menu? Then you really have no true love for French food -- and certainly nothing resembling a heart.
How come you haven't done a show on Taiwan?
i just the shows wear he is outside the u.s. It makes for a good show.
Hi Tony,
Love your show. A suggestion...How about going back to Argentina for Cordoba (less frequented, more interesting than Buenos Aires, Mendoza (lots of good cheap wine) and Misiones (for the mind blowing Iguassu falls)to name a few places.
My fiancee and his cousins and I will be going there next March; visiting my family in Cordoba, followed by drinking in Mendoza, then maybe Iguassu falls again...I'm sure my family would let your show film them.
I hope you film in Argentina again; with or with out us.
Tamara NYC
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Oh yes. And my love of "Jew food" that no one out here seems to understand. Creamed herring at its finest.
I think I will make stuffed cabbage this weekend.
What is the name of the German restaurant that Tony featured in the Disappearing Manhattan episode?
Great New York episode, made me wish I was back in the USA on the visitor exchange program. Not a student anymore though. Maybe will try to visit NY in the future - Le Veau D'O sounded/looked good.
You need to see Guam.Check out there cuisine.Ask about the coconut crab and how they catch it.If its still legal.Was there as a kid in the seventies.
When I watched your episode in the Philippines, how I envied you having the delicious roasted pig,surely the best. Whenever I go visit my homeland, I never forget to have it in my table. My husband would enjoy watching it cooked before him. We enjoyed your shows.
More power and good health to you too!
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You need to see Guam.Check out there cuisine.Ask about the coconut crab and how they catch it.If its still legal.Was there as a kid in the seventies.
Tony, did you hear the sounds coming from my husband and I in "the West" last night? The head cheese, Katz's, etc. the noise was so great the cat jumped and ran. Keep it up, please.
Being from Sri Lanka originally (now living in Los Angeles) it was a trip to hear your comments about the crows, guns, the heat, tut-tuts, and the culture. Very impressed with your ability to handle spicy food!! :) If you are in Los Angeles and looking for some Sri Lankan food, try the Curry Bowl in Tarzana. Hole in the wall place that serves all of the authentic dishes.
Ask anyone around the country and they will have a favorite bland, greasy-spoon diner or old school dining establishment where the wallpaper and menu was last updated when fringe bellbottoms were still thought to be cool. They know the waitress the the blue hair who asks if you want gravy on your deep fried lard.
When I watched your episode in the Philippines, how I envied you having the delicious roasted pig,surely the best. Whenever I go visit my homeland, I never forget to have it in my table. My husband would enjoy watching it cooked before him. We enjoyed your shows.
More power and good health to you too!
You need to see Guam.Check out there cuisine.Ask about the coconut crab and how they catch it.If its still legaL
moving uptown and upmarket killed luchows. If you want German food, go to Rolf's.
Thank you thank you thank you!
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I left the East Coast 4 years ago. When asked what I miss the most, the answer always is the food. NYC deli's, R.I. real clam chowda, fish in any form. I could go on and on, but you get the gist of this. Tomorrows show will require me to wear a bib and have lots of napkins. Keep it up and thanks
Every city has some. Would it that there could be the equivalent of a historic landmark appellation for places like these.
Hi Tony,
Love your show. A suggestion...How about going back to Argentina for Cordoba (less frequented, more interesting than Buenos Aires, Mendoza (lots of good cheap wine) and Misiones (for the mind blowing Iguassu falls)to name a few places.
My fiancee and his cousins and I will be going there next March; visiting my family in Cordoba, followed by drinking in Mendoza, then maybe Iguassu falls again...I'm sure my family would let your show film them.
I hope you film in Argentina again; with or with out us.
Manganaro's and had the lasagna. It was very, very good! We were the only people in the place, and the experience was fantastic!
What is the name of the German restaurant that Tony featured in this episode?
What is the name of the German restaurant that Tony featured in this episode?
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Well, your Philipines show was good. However, if you keep going to these out of the way places, you run the risk of being Zimmerned. While Andrew is cool, he ain't you.
I'm the nutball who suggested you take the crew on a cruise and sample what, at least on the TV travelogues, looks like haute cuisine. You're into that kind of thing, this should appeal to you!
Manganaro's and had the lasagna. It was very, very good! We were the only people in the place, and the experience was fantastic!
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What is the name of the German restaurant that Tony featured in this episode.
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would like to know some of the reservations Anthony
Bourdain talked about when he did a St. Maarten stay several years ago.
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I'm the nutball who suggested you take the crew on a cruise and sample what, at least on the TV travelogues, looks like haute cuisine. You're into that kind of thing, this should appeal to you!
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God (or whatever) bless those old places. Whether in New York or elsewhere, the world will be a little sadder and have just a little less character when those places one day do close down. In the meantime, Tony, thanks for sharing them with us. Looking forward to Monday night
Where tortiere and maple syrup pie is eaten at Au Petit Poucet in Val David, a mere 20 min outside of central downtown Montreal which I remember eating since I was five and skiing up north...the Willow Inn which has the same named restaurant attached that is also an institution for people on a Saturday night
My friend recently informed me that you HAVE been to downtown Detroit to film some stuff so kudos! But I see you're slacking... new week, same post. You gotta get on the people that write your blog.
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your Philipines show was good. However, if you keep going to these out of the way places, you run the risk of being Zimmerned. While Andrew is cool, he ain't you.
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Just saw the preview for the Manhattan show and noticed that the boot Anthony was drinking out of had a HB written on it. It makes me believe that he was in the Hoffbrau Haus. Is this true? I was born in Germany and frequent back to see my family every year.
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i just the shows wear he is outside the u.s. It makes for a good show.
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You need to see www.cuocoadomicilio.com with the owner chef. He is similar to you. You are special Tony. Next week I will be in NY. I will reserve a table in Les Halles. Bye from Florence, Italy.
would like to know some of the reservations Anthony
Bourdain talked about when he did a St. Maarten stay several years ago.
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This is amazing. New York is the best. Crown Heights is my favorite place and i'm not even a jew!
Great episode! i enjoyed reading every single word!
Tony, inspiring pastrami sandwich cravings after 10PM is not cute. If it wasn't over 80 blocks south, I would have walked to Katz last night! Amazing episode and, as always, you are fabulous!
well i was impressed and loved Thailand and Vietnam but South Africa has so much to offer
Portland has soooo many wonderful and quirky places, and almost none are downtown, where you seemed to focus. Come back again!!! The beer & coffee alone is worth another trip to Portland
Hi Tony,
Love your show. A suggestion...How about going back to Argentina for Cordoba (less frequented, more interesting than Buenos Aires, Mendoza (lots of good cheap wine) and Misiones (for the mind blowing Iguassu falls)to name a few places.
My fiancee and his cousins and I will be going there next March; visiting my family in Cordoba, followed by drinking in Mendoza, then maybe Iguassu falls again...I'm sure my family would let your show film them.
I hope you film in Argentina again; with or with out us.
Tony, inspiring pastrami sandwich cravings after 10PM is not cute. If it wasn't over 80 blocks south, I would have walked to Katz last night! Amazing episode and, as always, you are fabulous!
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My fiancee and his cousins and I will be going there next March;
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He is a class chef.. i been watching him on discovery.. how much he eats and drinks but his body still is lean.. how is it possible?
great antonhy. i watch your tv program on sky every day . anthony bourdain no reservation is a must in tv show. bye
I was born in Germany and frequent back to see my family every year.
To me, it was one of the best shows you have done!
First the Philippines and now NYC! Back to Back goodness that's getting my dad excited. He was a student at St. John's during the late 60s/early 70s and always talked about how great New York was and how you can get a great meal whenever you want it (he won't stop talking about pastrami, pizza and the beef brisket)...
Being from Sri Lanka originally (now living in Los Angeles) it was a trip to hear your comments about the crows, guns, the heat, tut-tuts, and the culture. Very impressed with your ability to handle spicy food!! :)
I have a lot of respect for what you do in regards to touring so many amazing countries while maintaining respect for their culture... but I also don't get what the deal is behind your vitriolic sentiment towards vegetarians? I wrote you a letter about it on my website, actually.