Comments on: Bourdain in South Beach

By: Jim Randolph

Jim Randolph — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:07:12 +0000

I recently watched your episode in Osaka, Japan. I love your show, mostly because I also love travel and good food. Osaka has been my favorite place for both, for the last 30 years. I agree that Osaka is where you truly find the heart of the Japanese. I lived there for 5 years and my wife is a Hanshin Tigers fanatic (she’s now become a big fan of “NO RESERVATIONS”, too). That episode was one of your best, filmed mostly in the Minami District, but you barely scratched the surface. There is so much more you should see and taste in Osaka and the Kansai area of Japan, even you’d be surprised. If you ever go there again, I’d love to meet up & show you so much more that you wouldn’t believe.
Thanks, Jim

By: paty

paty — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:38:31 +0000

Hi Anthony!!!!
I like it very much your tv program and I hope some day you will visit another place of mexico….(Im sorry because of my limited english)

Congratulations!!!!

paty
my E-mail. patmont99@hotmail.com

By: Liset

Liset — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:00:41 +0000

Hello Anthony,
I just saw you episode about Beirut and it touched me deeply. My boyfriend and I have been watching your programs and we really like the way you deal and talk about everything.
In this episode, when you were already on the ship, you said that you were going back to your family, job, friends but those people were leaving all that behind. I saw myself 3 years ago, doing something I would’ve never dreamt of doing just to get out of my country: Cuba. I was in that same situation: leaving behind everything I knew, family, dear friends, the city where I was born, my world. Without knowing when I was going to come back. With the clothes I had on and nothing else. We were not at war but it was, and it still is, a difficult life that makes you take tough decisions.
I like the way you see beyond, you reach to people and not just “do your job”. I like how you said all this traveling and meeting so many different people has changed your life.
I can’t wait to see No Reservations in Cuba. And if you ever need someone to show you around, I’ll be more than happy to help. I had the opportunity to know a lot of beautiful places in the island, beautiful people, I am in love with the countryside (btw, GREAT food in private houses), and I think you will be blown out with Cuba (don’t know if I said it correctly).
So thanks for your amazing program.
Liset
(I now live here in the US. If you need to know something about Cuba, this is my email: liset@liset.org)

By: Eleanor Lamont

Eleanor Lamont — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:55:57 +0000

Just to say that Tony is the spit of my obviously fraternal twin brother David face and personality. We are 52 years of age, Canadian from Ontaio and foodies and winos by nature and by culture. Tony- you make us laugh!!! (Paris trip was the funniest)You are real, human and unpretentious in a world of showbiz selfobsessed chefs. (Gordon Ramsey and Mario Batali are also excused in this description of course!)Keep it up-keep finding the real food of the big bad world!!!You are real and super cool!! Yours, Eleanor and David

By: Leo & Frances Duran

Leo & Frances Duran — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:36:44 +0000

Dear Mr. Bourdain,
When are you going to do a segment in El Paso, Tx on mexican food. We have some very good authentic
mexican food, that I think would impress you. Our
business, the L&J Cafe is 81 years old and three generations strong. I hope that you will visit El Paso, Tx. and stop by the L & J Cafe (The Old Place by the Graveyard) in the near future.

Sincerely,

Leo & Frances Duran

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:51:07 +0000

I was not there but what I got from the little snipet of the video is that, in front of an audience you become a comedian. But from many of your travels, you are humble and shy. That would be the core of you and that is why I like it! Mary