Sean Brock And Anthony Bourdain Eat At The Waffle House
Zero Point Zero Production, Inc.Cited 6× on HN, 2018-2024
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A short clip from Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown in which he and chef Sean Brock end a long night of drinking at a Charleston Waffle House. It celebrates the unpretentious, welcoming late-night diner. Bourdain's remark comparing the meal favorably to the French Laundry is what people remember.
HN commenters cite it whenever Waffle House comes up, as a touchstone for Bourdain's love of humble, unfancy places.
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6 comments from Hacker News
Waffle House is an entity unto itself: See: link See: link See: link And the man himself: ▶ this video Waffle House goes from nice to war zone and back again just about every day. It never closes, never... If a Waffle House is closed you better have a boat or a gun cause what ever comes next will likely require one or both.
Anthony Bourdain, upon visiting his first Waffle House, remarked "This is better than the French Laundry": ▶ this video
Yes. Waffle House makes me think of him too: Sean Brock: "You don't come here expecting the French Laundry. You come here expecting something amazing." Bourdain (without missing a beat): "This is better than the French Laundry, man." ▶ this video
We all have that one place that we secretly love but keep on the down low for risk of being chided by our more "sophisticated" company. For many that is McDonalds or similar. For me, it's Waffle House. ▶ this video
I love Waffle House but I can’t convince my wife, kids, cousins or anyone else in my family. They just don’t get it. But I don’t care, Anthony Bourdain got it: ▶ this video (As long as I live, I’ll think of him every time I see a Waffle House.)
> He was also utterly authentic in his own responses. “Tony didn’t do fake,” Zentoh says. “He really would eat what was on the plate, drink what was in the glass.” He would try anything, but if he didn’t like, say, a bite of dried sea-cucumber liver that elicited an “I don’t need to try that again,” he wouldn’t pretend otherwise. For the rest of my life, I'll remember Anthony Bourdain every time I see a Waffle House: ▶ this video Brock: "You don't come here expecting the French Laundry. You come here expecting something amazing." Bourdain: "This is better than the French Laundry."