Tony orders some Pappy Van Winkle, Erickson goes for Champagne and Dillon requests a gin martini. Renee Erickson and Matt Dillon clean up real nice for dinner with Tony at Canlis, “a stunningly beautiful example of unironic retro glamor.” Except… he calls Jason Franey “Jeff.” BOOOOOOOO!!!!! Good thing Franey runs the kitchen, because superiority and threat of firing is perhaps the only way to prevent the entire staff from calling him Jeff for all eternity. There is something about Tom Douglas getting bleeped for language (on a Tony Bourdain show, no less) that is really endearing.

Over some freshly shucked Barron Points and Baywater Sweets, T-Doug expounds the joy of Seattle’s seafood bounty. But really, who can blame them? Plus Tony brought Tom Douglas, who is rocking a summery madras shirt. I should make fun of the fact that every freaking visiting food personality in the universe goes to Walrus and the Carpenter. That Tesla must really hold a charge, because next he zags over to Easy Street Records in West Seattle. He’s on his way to Wallingford, a neighborhood apparently “known for sidewalk cafes,” to go on a whoopee cushion and pickle-shaped bandage buying spree at Archie McPhee’s. Congratulations, Tony-you encountered an official sanctimonious Seattle, um, duckhead. A guy pulls up next to him on a scooter to mock his ride as “a family car for the 1 percent.” Tony gives some sort of self-deprecating answer about mileage, and the dude retorts that his scooter gets 90 miles to the gallon, then zooms off. Motoring around in his Tesla, Tony for some reason thinks the traffic is worse than LA.

Tony first started coming to Seattle around 2000, “It was Brooklyn before Brooklyn,” which is code for “lots of young hipster/forager/cheesemakers.” Aww, thanks for reading, Layover research department!Īfter a brief stop at Pike Place Market (“well-trod ground, but still worth visiting,”), Tony's at Melrose Market, eating mortadella at Rain Shadow Meats and downing samples of Dinah and other wares from Calf and Kid’s Shari LaVigne. Tony says it’s “described as a temple of biscuit worship.” Hey, that sounds familiar…oh, right! That would be a quote from our breakfast issue. “This is Seattle in an English muffin.” But he also gives some love to Nook in the University District. His first stop is a fried egg sandwich with Dungeness crab and avocado at Seatown. He makes wise about the name: “After you work at Hooter’s for two years, you hate yourself so much, you move over to Cutter’s.” Walking along the waterfront, Tony notes that the rest of the country is broiling (it’s July) and yet in Seattle it’s temperate enough to sport a sweatshirt.

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