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Chicago episode

posted 8 years ago by rotomato
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• Chicago (May 1). Chicago's iconic Old Town Ale House is the gateway to Bourdain's tour of the city, which includes dining on breaded steak sandwiches at Ricobene's with music producer Steve Albini.

Bourdain samples Mapo Doufu at Chinatown's Sze Chuan with chef Stephanie Izard and a home-cooked meal with Chicago-raised rapper Lupe Fiasco and his mom, plus a tour of comedy mecca Second City with Paul Jurewicz.

I've been to Chicago a few times and dined at some of the typical local icons which I'm certain Parts Unknown will avoid. 😀

Great city. Great food. I imagine this is going to be a good episode.

[–] rotomato 8 years ago

I enjoyed this episode but I'm sure some will say it was a bit slow.

Bourdain obviously loved all the characters at Old Town Ale House as he started every segment there with a hit or miss personal story from one of the regulars before moving on to dine at Longman & Eagle, Valois cafeteria, Topo Gigio, Ricobene's and Chinatown and boy the food looked fantastic. Not one mention of Chicago dogs or deep-dish pizza which was fine by me although I love both.

Discussions of Second City, Chicago sports, music, Roger Ebert and the high murder rate easily held my interest.

Yup, good episode.

[–] ryan-anderson 8 years ago

I thought the interesting part was that black woman (referencing the crime there) said the biggest mistake her family made was leaving Mississippi (to go to Chicago).

No deep dish pizza in the episode (that I saw)!

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[–] tminutti2 8 years ago

It was a really good episode. He even came to Chicago and premiered the episode at the Chicago Theatre! It was a very awesome episode and so far one of my favorites!