Anthony Bourdain has long loved Seattle: Four years ago, the food celebrity toured the Emerald City and declared that it had “one of the best and most interesting food scenes in America” on the final season of his TV show The Layover. Last fall, Bourdain returned in the penultimate episode of CNN’s Parts Unknown, Season 10, and despite complaints about tech bros, he made a similarly bold proclamation about Seattle: “It’s pretty damn awesome,” Bourdain said. “Way ahead of the rest of the country in unbridled enthusiasm for good ingredients and good stuff.”
Bourdain visited Modernist Cuisine’s Bread Lab to sample a new project, Vashon Island for an old-school clambake with the team behind Chefsteps, and the family-run Hollingsworth Cannabis Company, suggesting, “What [Seattle’s] always been and continues to be is a magnet for creators to come experiment and to make their own.” Here for posterity, in order of appearance, is a guide to the seven Eater-relevant places, from revered restaurants to dive bars to a dispensary, that Bourdain patronized on his most recent trip to Seattle.
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