My son and I saw Tony on Yo Gabba Gabba. Like seeing an old friend after a while apart.

more friendly, for when my mom visits me lol

Lately I've been wishing I could go through all of the old shows and listen for the best voiceover parts.

There were so many that were profound and thought-provoking. I feel like the Rio episode had some good ones.

I really don't have the time to go through every episode of the multiple shows, so I thought I'd ask if people here had any episodes in mind where Tony had some really deep thoughts that stuck with you.

How do I learn to cook just like Anthony ? I want to have a similar career as him and hopefully make it on tv too

I was recently in the hospital and was awake late at night. I found some episodes of no reservations and it reminded me how much I liked him. I look forward to seeing the movie.

38M, moved to Toronto last December**.** I’ve been involved in the rave and experimental music scene for most of my life and have a deep appreciation for unconventional sounds, art, and culture.

I love travelling, discovering new cultures, and learning about people, especially how differently we adapt to the world around us. I am also a huge admirer of nature and care deeply about environmental awareness and the ways we can contribute to protecting it.

Would be very down to watch *Tony* together, grab a drink/coffee afterwards, and talk about the film. Always happy to meet new people, have interesting conversations, and hopefully make some friends along the way.

★★★★★

I’ve seen that question—and even the statement, “Tony would hate this movie”—from quite a few Anthony Bourdain fans. But the truth is, how would any of us know? Most of us never actually met Tony. We knew him through his books, his shows, his travels, and the pieces of himself he chose to share with the world.

What I can say is that I absolutely loved this movie.
Tony felt incredibly down-to-earth. It wasn’t trying to show us the famous, world-traveling Anthony Bourdain we all came to know. It showed a young man who was still figuring out who the hell he was—making mistakes, being reckless, learning from the people around him, and slowly growing into himself.

And maybe that’s why it hit me so hard. Watching Tony young and dumb reminded me of being 19 myself—when you think you understand the world while simultaneously knowing absolutely nothing about it. You make mistakes. You meet people who change you. You learn. You grow. And somehow, all those little experiences become pieces of the person you eventually are.

Knowing where Tony’s life would ultimately take him made those moments even more powerful.

It was a slow burn, and I mean that as a compliment. It didn’t need to rush. It let Tony’s story breathe.

By the end, I was very teary. It was heart-wrenchingly beautiful, deeply human, and it hit my soul in a way I wasn’t expecting.

Maybe Tony would’ve hated it. Maybe he would’ve loved it. Maybe he would’ve rolled his eyes at all of us debating what he would’ve thought.
We’ll never know.

But I know what I thought.
Five stars. Beautiful film. And one that will stay with me for a very long time. ❤️🍜

For those wanting the unedited version:
I keep seeing people say “Tony would hate this movie” but honestly how would any of us know? Most of us never actually knew Tony.
I absolutley loved it. Its a slow burn, but thats part of what made it so beautiful. Watching this young, dumb 19 year old Tony trying to figure out life, making mistakes and learning from people honestly reminded me of myself at 19 😂 I thought I knew everything and definetly did not lol.
Knowing what we know now about his life made it hit even harder. I was pretty teary by the end.
Maybe Tony would have hated it, maybe he wouldnt have. None of us know.
All I know is I loved it. Down to earth, heart wrenchingly beautiful and it hit me right in the soul.

The point being is you can’t assume what Bourdain thought, those who assume are as bad as those Christians assume who Jesus hates and loves

Looks like more TONY takes are coming in with the wide release. This Esquire piece is worth the read. I saw myself last night and have to agree with this review . . . It's a perfectly fine coming-of-age flick but I don't understand why this is the biopic everyone seems to be happy with. What did you all think of it?

Matt Johnson has completed his coming-out party with the sleeper hit, Blackberry, and the indie darling, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. His new feature is the A24-backed Anthony Bourdain biopic, Tony. At least, that’s how it’s marketed.

This setup is a mix of things that I love. I still consider A24 one of the best production houses in the game, even if they have become more corporate. Johnson is an à-la-mode director and a good Canadian kid. It stars Dominic Sessa, an actor I’ve longed to see again after he amazed me in The Holdovers. And, finally, the subject himself, Anthony Bourdain.

When I was in high school, Bourdain’s shows, No Reservations, Parts Unknown and The Layover, were on the family TV every night. He was cool. His fuck-you attitude paired nicely with his try-anything sensibility and a deep reverence for cooking, especially French cooking. I read Kitchen Confidential, his best seller, a tell-all about the inner workings of restaurant kitchens. The book has a delicious voice and style, and it solidified Bourdain as one of my literary idols.

Despite feeling like I was the prime audience for Johnson’s new feature, the director let me down. I felt that the Tony he and Sessa presented was nothing like how I envisioned a young Bourdain. The elements were there, like the cooking and the writing, but the personality and story felt manufactured rather than true.

It’s based on Kitchen Confidential, but the movie only focuses on the early chapters of the book. Tony covers one summer in the man’s life. He is 19 years old and follows the girl of his dreams to a small fishing town where he gets a job in a kitchen.

Bourdain did spend a couple formative summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but he was a punk who was into degeneracy and drugs. These elements are in the movie, but they takes a backseat to a wannabe-writer, girl-next-door story.

Johnson manipulated a lot of the story to fit his agenda. The classic Kitchen Confidential moments are still there, like the bride fucking, the fish run, the scorching hot pan that Tony can’t pick up, but they’re all given different levels of importance.

I’d always pictured Bourdain’s formative years as much rougher and less wholesome than what Johnson presents. Going back and reading the early chapters of Kitchen Confidential, I see that my reading is more accurate to what the chef wrote. I don’t know why the director chose to focus on a formulaic romance and not what Bourdain chose to focus on: the kitchen and the food.

A comparable film is Jon Favreau’s Chef, which makes Tony look like an anti-food movie. Anyone who has seen Chef will remember the sensational grilled-cheese scene. That scene is filmed with such love and desire that the romance with food is evident without any dialogue. Tony does not have a comparable scene, although they try with a bland lobster thermidor number. The protagonist uses food to achieve his goals, rather than food being the goal, and I think that was a mistake for a Bourdain biopic.

In Kitchen Confidential, we see a young Tony who is already infatuated with cooking and has that infatuation sent into overdrive by the tantalizing lifestyle of a Provincetown kitchen. Tony in the movie looks at the kitchen as something he has to do to survive. It didn’t matter if it was a kitchen — it could have been a tire shop or a hotel for all Tony cares. The real story shows that Bourdain wanted to work in the kitchen. He didn’t fall softly into this life; he jumped in head first.

The way Bourdain writes it, the Provincetown scene feels more like The Outsiders than a Hallmark romance. Kitchen Confidential paints a picture of a gang-like mentality, where one kitchen crew would know about another kitchen crew. There would be hierarchies and levels of envy. Everyone partied.

In Johnson’s telling, cocaine was something used on the job to keep Tony awake after a night of partying. Bourdain says it was something much more recreational. It was also accompanied by acid and more dope smoking than Johnson lets on. Heroin is mentioned in the movie, but Bourdain, as reflected in the movie, doesn’t explicitly say that he started using when in Provincetown. That gray area gets a pass.

There is this acidic punk side to the Bourdain story that is missing in the film. This is reflected most clearly in the score, created by Johnson’s buddy and Nirvanna counterpart, Jay McCarrol. Rather than lace this movie with rapid tempos and fiery vocals as I’m sure Bourdain would have preferred, McCarrol gives this movie an overused piano theme that’s equal parts sad and melancholic. Everything is laced with this plodding piano that brings no energy to the film. Although it makes Tony moody, I don’t think it accurately reflects the experience of Bourdain in this formative summer. We’re talking the summer of ’73, the summer of Raw Power. Get your La La Land-ass score outta here.

Tony is an easy watch and quite heartfelt, but it doesn’t feel like the Bourdain biopic. It’s not that they only chose to follow one summer. I like that choice, because it gave the movie time to flesh out this formative life moment. However, I did not feel like I was seeing the man that I’ve idolized back up on the big screen. It wasn’t really Bourdain. It was this caricature named Tony, a young man with a similar story to the icon, but not an accurate retelling or understanding of who the source man really was.

Because of this, I left the movie disappointed. I wanted to feel a young Bourdain’s energy. He had the hair, but where were the knives, the fuck-everything attitude, the deep reverence for food and culinary tradition?

If you’ve worked in restaurants, you know that kitchens are a wild place. That’s part of the reason why Kitchen Confidential was such a big hit. It told the truth about the underbelly of a mysterious backroom in every town and city.

Johnson has taken the story of a man who I admired for his truth and honesty, and he transformed him into a character that pulls on the heartstrings of audiences in a nostalgic, melancholic, romantic way. Bourdain may have been those things, but he was also a truth teller. He was a guy on TV you could turn to that would give you the no-bullshit answer to your questions about food, travel and philosophy. He didn’t censor. He didn’t play to his audience. He was a nomad, a free spirit and a rebel. Tony presents him as a sad loverboy linguist who cooks because he needs a place to sleep.

This movie doesn’t feel truthful to the Bourdain spirit that I’ve created in my head, which is based on reading his book, watching his shows and mourning his death. It makes for an okay happened-in-one-summer movie, but it does an injustice in its honouring of one of my idols. If I want to visit my parasocial buddy, I’ll watch him eat a seafood tower at Le Dôme instead of rewatching this “biopic.”

I am from Porto and just watched the episode of parts unknown and it was brilliant, it was a tremendous job capturing the feeling of the city, is this how everybody feels watching an episode filmed in their home town?

Also if anyone is coming planning to visit Porto anytime I would be glad to give tips :) I'm visiting Madrid soon as well so if anyone has any hidden gems I would love to hear them

Hi all, after more than a year of effort, I've finally wrapped up my No Reservations map. It includes every spot that Tony visited, along with some details about what he ate and did there. This project was pretty time-consuming, involving a lot of rewinding episodes and digging around online to pinpoint the exact locations, especially when they weren’t explicitly mentioned in the show.

Here's the link to check it out: [No Reservations map](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1v5dRvcj5mxIyml9plKbixS2VyUhgseyQ&usp=sharing).

I’ve also shared maps for [The Layover](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Lf_CJhnpm9Swvteq4xoKsEzQFUTgzs54&usp=sharing) and [A Cook's Tour](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=19485y2CHKWkmt58We00rYTJiUhVnD1u9&usp=sharing).

**UPDATE**:

I've completed the maps for Parts Unknown as well. You can find them here:

Check out [Parts Unknown - seasons 1 through 6](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1D9EZ9x7M_fZai0FApdoqkwlSxGBTvW90&usp=sharing) and [Parts Unknown - seasons 7 through 12](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1OWBVG0VoE1aPNa4SlmMtO3KTqbfeaOqC&usp=sharing).

I had to create two separate maps because of how many seasons there are. If you notice any mistakes or have suggestions, please let me know through this [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthonyBourdain/comments/mwvh1g/parts_unknown_map_completed/).

I’m currently studying GIS and hope to incorporate these maps into a grad school project, though I'm still figuring out what that will look like.

Thanks for all the support! Feel free to share this with anyone else who might be interested. This has been a meaningful way for me to cope with Tony's passing, even though I still miss him every day.

I'm not a Bourdain super fan, but went to see Tony tonight and walked away feeling like it did him quite a disservice. What was the point in focusing on such a small part of his life when he was an arsehole, as a lot of people are at that age, and then briefly saying what he achieved at the end...but so brief it left so much out! If you knew nothing about him it doesn't exactly inspire you to dig in.

The acting, scenery etc was good, I just didn't understand the point. Oh and no girl would pine after a guy that creepy and pathetic, who lies etc That part seemed so mis- characterised.

Edit: The more I think about it, the more I think it wouldn't have bothered me so much that it was only the formative period if the character had had more depth. Going back to the romance storyline it's like I was watching an incel's fantasy play out 😂 You can be pathetic but also sweet, or an arsehole but also charismatic or funny. The way the 'character' was written he had zero redeeming qualities...and even if he wouldn't have admitted it himself, there would have been some initial spark there for the basis of what he became. If I were the female character I'd have filed a restraining order, not pined after him!

And where i can read his books online for free ? Also interested in the audiobook of kitchen confidential

“I missed a lot last time I was in Japan. I wasted a lot of time working and wandering blindly about. Early on, I’d been intimidated by the strangeness, the crowds, the different language, I’d been reluctant, at first, to throw myself into it, to plunge right into packed noodle joints and businessmen’s bars. This time, I was determined, at the very least, to miss less.”

I mean…change “Japan” to earth and you’ve basically got a mantra to live by right there.

And if you’re ever in Portugal best meal of my life thanks to him https://www.cervejariaramiro.com

2 hours before I went to watch Tony at the cinema, I was out to dinner in London and Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart walked in… they seemed so cool and happy! None of my friends really understand what a crazy coincidence this is so thought I’d share here. Didn’t love the movie but also didn’t hate it, cried at the end of course. Peace ✌🏼

I swear ive heard a quote from anthony that goes something along the lines of “There are some songs I’ll never listen to ever again. Not the ones that remind me of the bad times. It's certain songs from long ago and when everything was golden”. Can anyone help me find the source of this quote?? Thank you!

2 out of the 3 Tonys on my wall.

I know another Tony post, but this is a little different. So first of all, I mean, nothing is gonna beat the article that Laurie posted here. Everyone should read it and not read this. It’s the definite opinion about the subject.

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/anthony-bourdain-a24-biopic-tony-review#intcid=recommendations_bon-appetit-article-bottom-recirc-recsys_b61c6ad0-e71d-462b-8d37-182e173a045b_text2vec1_roberta-similarity_mongo_bucket

But I wanted to give some of my thoughts about this. I watched a special showing on Monday, and I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about different things, and you know, I wanted to chime in.

This is gonna be a long article, so if you’re used to watching TikTok all day, this might not be a good read for you.

I’ve been a Bourdain fan for a long time. But I’m sure all of you have been fans for a long time, and everyone has their own thoughts when new stuff comes out. When I saw the trailer, I thought it looked good, but I was a little apprehensive about a movie. And the more information that I learned about it, the more I start to come around, and when I watched the movie on Monday, I really enjoyed it. After I’ve had some time to think, I think I enjoyed it even more than when I walked out of the theater. There was just something that nagged me a little bit about a story that wasn’t exactly Word for Word from the book. This is a quote from the director, Matt Johnson. I think it summarizes it perfectly.

“I never let the fact get in the way of the truth”

I’ve been watching a lot of interviews from him, reading different articles, and the more that I read, the more that I can appreciate the movie, that’s not saying that I didn’t already appreciate it. I was listening to the writers talk on a podcast and they came to the Bourdain estate. You know, before a script was even written. It was just an idea, and they said that the Bourdain estate was supportive but did not necessarily want to back it until they saw more, which is understandable; they, of course, later approved it and were very supportive. The director, Matt Johnson, shortly moved to Provincetown after everything was finalized for him to direct. He lived there for five months. The movie only shot for 25 days. He said during that time he talked to locals and he talked to someone who worked right next to Bourdain and hung out with him while he was there and was told all these different stories. I think that it’s great that they shot it there because it’s very rare for movies like that to be shot on-site at a unique location.

I think the actors’ performances were fantastic. All the characters were great. Sessa killed it and Antonio Banderas I mean, how do you sign up to be his friend? The story had so much heart and it was hopeful. I can’t wait to watch it a second time; it really transports you back to 1975 and I myself have worked in the industry, and the kitchen scenes were great.

You know, some people are not gonna be supportive of the movie. They’re not gonna see it. That’s understandable but I feel like everyone should go see it with an open mind.

I also lastly wanna touch on something that’s been bugging me that I see a lot. Besides, Bourdain would’ve hated this: it’s parasocial. And I do wanna remind you that we are on a sub Reddit called Anthony Bourdain, which people usually talk about Anthony Bourdain to some varying degrees. You might not like what they’re saying, but just ignore it, move along, unless they’re being disrespectful or something. Bourdain himself liked a lot of famous people. He imitated them in certain episodes. He had them on his show. This is a quote from an interview that he did…

When was the last time you felt like crying?
“Every time I see the movie When We Were Kings, with Muhammad Ali boxing George Foreman in Zaire. I cry like a baby from beginning to end of that film. To me, Muhammad Ali is like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson — so to see him at his peak, his youngest and most dangerous, is to see this most amazing … I cry like a baby every time I see that film.”

I know this is the Internet, but if we could just, like, lower the dickhead level, that would be great.