Noah Galuten

Bourdain eyes The City by the Bay.; Credit: Travel Channel

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Cioppino and Offal, Burgers and Beer

Sometimes the hardest things to find are those closest to you. In this week's No Reservations, Bourdain and the crew were in San Fransisco, eating all kinds of local specialties that you won't come across easily in Los Angeles. Sure, he also went to a great farmer's market, ate good-looking......
The calming cold soba of Ichimiann in Torrance.; Credit: N. Galuten

Squid Ink Food Fight: Cold Summer Noodles, Japan Vs. Korea

It's summer. The heat is turning up and sometimes the best best way to beat it is with a bowl of cold noodles. So in this edition of Squid Ink Food Fight, we pit two ethnicities against each other that actually have a long history of battling: Japan and Korea......
Anthony Bourdain takes on Rust Belt cuisine.; Credit: Travel Channel

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Wings, Polish Food and Lebanese Tartar

Another week, another episode of No Reservations. Bourdain, inspired partially by HBO's critically acclaimed series "The Wire", (a fact that seemed to concern some locals), set out on a Rust Belt episode, highlighting the local fare of Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit. Baltimore "lake trout", which is famously neither trout, nor......
Bourdain eats at a rooftop potluck in Melbourne; Credit: Travel Channel

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Sichuan, Kebab, Brains & More

Anthony Bourdain was at it again this week, delving into the surprising culinary scene of Melbourne, Australia. But unless you have a bunch of highly-skilled chef pals with access to local Aussie ingredients, you're probably not going to be able to recreate that charming little rooftop potluck. However, for much......
Restaurant Silvestre

Mexican Road Trip Part III: Seafood, Wineries, Barbacoa and Even More Tacos

For the group of food writers, bloggers, chefs and restaurateurs that spent this past weekend traveling through Mexico, Saturday morning began at the weekend-only spot, Barbacoa "Ermita". Slurping lamb consommé so thick and soothing that it should replace chicken soup in elementary school thermoses, chomping pansita (Mexican haggis), drinking brightly......
Busy local lunch spot

Mexican Road Trip Part II: From Cheap Eats to Fine Dining

Day 2 of our epic Mexico trip began much earlier than seemed humanly possible, though that's a product, I assume, of eating street food until 4 AM the night before. So after an open-air bus tour through the streets of Tijuana, and an oddly appropriate morning shot of aged rum......