A Montreal adventure This video is currently unavailable. On February 15, 2012, Travel Channel renewed the show for the 2012/2013 season, selecting Novemfor the second-season premiere featured cities for the season include Atlanta, Chicago, Dublin, New Orleans, Paris, Philadelphia, São Paulo, Seattle, Toronto, and Taipei.Įpisodes Season 1 (2011–12) No. A layover in the middle of summer in Hong Kong leads Anthony Bourdain to taste different kinds of dim sums and roasted meat with the stifling heat and a sharkskin suit, which makes things a tad uncomfortable.
As a seasoned traveler, he meets up with locals and explores the city in and out, within matters of hours, both the touristy way and the local way. Each episode starts with the host landing at the city, with the clock starting the countdown until the time that he will leave the city. The format and the content of the show are based on what a traveler can do, eat, visit and enjoy within 24 to 48 hours in a city. The show premiered on Novemin an episode based on Singapore. From New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami to Hong Kong. The Layover is a travel and food show on the Travel Channel hosted by Anthony Bourdain. Anthony Bourdain just 24-48 hours to hit the must see places, people and foods. For other uses, see Layover (disambiguation). On this week’s episode of The Layover, Bourdain and a few of his pals set up camp at said tiki bar, where after a few cocktails, he declared, “If you have no love in your heart for this place, you are a sick, twisted lonely f*ck with too many cats.” Drastic, perhaps, but we agree: A visit the Tonga Room is well worth the trip.This article is about the television show. Koreatown outpost for a Parts Unknown episode back in 2013 and the San Diego store proudly displays an autographed photo of Bourdain on the wall the chain was also featured in a recent issue of Lucky Peach. Dating from an early 1960s obsession with Hawaiian culture, the Tonga Room features faux straw huts, a floating band, and what it claims is the best mai tai in the city (served in a fake coconut, natch). The Los Angeles-area transplant, which also has locations in Garden Grove and Torrance, got a boost when Anthony Bourdain visited its L.A. While the vibe of the Fairmont can feel stuffy to some at times, the hotel does offer a relaxed atmosphere at its Polynesian-themed tiki bar, the Tonga Room.Īlthough the hotel offers a decent main restaurant and coffee shop, no one discusses the Fairmont without talking Tonga Room. Tony Bourdain finds himself in San Francisco, a city known by vegan and vegetarian.
Sure, his Twitter account had all the markings of a successful trip, but no one knows how things will look after post-production. If it’s your first visit to the city, you needn’t go far to start touring - there’s a cable car stop right outside of the hotel. Saisons et pisodes de la srie The Layover de Anthony Bourdain. When word first broke that Anthony Bourdain was in our midst to shoot an episode of The Layover, all Philly cared about was whether or not the world would get a proper culinary representation of our city in modern times.Surprisingly, thats exactly what happened.
We love the Fairmont for its iconic history (it was built back in 1907), modern room amenities - think oversize flat-screen TVs - and of course, location: The hotel is perched atop Nob Hill, an upscale area of the city that also affords most guest rooms with killer views. We love our Anthony Bourdain over here at - not only does he entertain us with his hilarious quotables, but he’s also able to check out some of our fave hotels, too, on his new program, The Layover (check the Travel Channel - our BFFs! - for show information).įor this week’s stop in San Francisco, Bourdain frequented one of our favorite Bay Area hotels, The Fairmont San Francisco.