A Lunch Date on the Hudson With Bill Murray | Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations | Travel Channel

dinner is served uh, we have the garnishes for Vietnamese sandwiches. Bon Me, we have the fixings for some bulgogi. Grilled Korean beef. Put some Korean chili paste and then you make a little taco. You use some salads. on the table is Green Mango and some oyster kimchi, that's really good, so if you're not sure how to do this, just watch the person next to you as they are informed of my many shortcomings. I managed to enjoy a spectacularly splendid bunbo with a side of make your own sides in a hearty broth, some would say delightfully rich and spicy, ah this is the broth here, yes yes basically slow cooked pig's feet kind Mike, what is this meatloaf here?

It's a pâté with cinnamon and ginger, never sat in a backyard in New York. In York State or anywhere else in the continental United States, and he ate food like this, he is very cheerful, yes, by the way, watch your language when you are with the child, okay, a foul-mouthed man, have you ever have you noticed the language? I watch a show, you have to sign a book for my mom and maybe you could sign a piece of paper so I can sell it on eBay. We would have to charge you a lot of money for this.

You could stare at me, but you ain't got no money, boy, here we go. we're talking now we're starting to deal you know he also knows Emerald he's very good friends my dad hates Emerald he doesn't hate Emerald no he does I make jokes with him at the supermarket I put hot sauce on Emerald in his cart , he says, get that shit out of my cart, he told you how much you hate Emerald, you can leave the table for another 10 minutes, we're just getting to the good stuff, you know, Michael, this is amazing, it's so incredibly good, uh.

Words fail me, so why is Hudson Valley here to New York what Somoma is to San Francisco? If you have to live on the east coast, you have to live in New Pauls Place like new, it's like a mini Berkeley. I feel like I've known you forever, but. I've never known you well, thanks, that's a really good dinner party skill, by the way, pH, filling an awkward moment in conversation, it's a learned skill, how do you take over the show? I mean, you already stole something. I don't even know why I bother, for one, I've had a job about 75% less than what I normally have to work on the show and by the way, it's work young lady, yes, moving your mouth is a lot of work, oh, we.

I'll be right back after the break. Are you sure this is your daughter? You didn't hire her from Central C. Not a ring. All this is not an elaborate joke. rope swing I'll do it at the end of the night everything was golden and nice and right with the world and even the slings and arrows of a little girl couldn't stop me from having a very good time close to home on the Eastern Bank of Hudson Yonkers I heard the name I knew they were there I would have driven by there once or twice Who would have known there was great food at this place right on the water and nothing less?

The quality of food in restaurants with views is usually the opposite. proportional to the quality of Scenic Vistas but in x2o it's different like this guy Peter Kelly he's different Dave honey he starts remaking a dish what do I mean different? This isn't going to work, apart from the fact that his food is really good and he's a tough, smart, funny Irish donkey with a genius for feeding people, come on, how about this? When I called him and told him we'd like to photograph at his restaurant, but my

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It turns out that he lives on the river and does a lot more around the Hudson Valley than I do, and it turns out that he also eats very well and enjoys a good bottle of wine and holy shit, I think of New York and where we are on the Hudson River. You know this is the oldest part of the country. You know what it means to be here in this place. in a place that Henry Hudson came to, he literally passed by here and turned up and came here thinking, hey, thank God, the water thing is over, we've got some land here, you know, and I said, yeah, can we stall?

Now hey, look, can we stop you? You live in this general area. I live on the other side of the river. I live there. Well, I used to live in the city, but you have to get out of the city, especially in the summer when it's hot. You have to go out because people get weird. You know last August people started saying what you're saying. You know, if you clear your throat, people, what you say. So I heard about it here on the river and it was so close and yet it seemed so far away where I am, it's like the land that time forgot, but it's nice here and I've known Peter for 25 years, how long has he been in the business?

Well, he retired, no, but he still has white suits, he's taking HGH, he's taking human growth hormone, how old is he? I don't check ID here we don't check ID, it's not like you know it's not like, uh, Utah, how old are you, man, how old? No? I opened the first one in '83. You have to start early. I didn't think it was going to work, so I thought I'd have to jump to something else later, when you were 17. What did he do? What did? You want to do this when you were 13 years old. I mean, I started working at 14 in a small German restaurant washing dishes and I loved it.

I think chefs in general, including you, probably have a sort of youthfulness to them. there's something in the kitchen that keeps them young it's like a child this is lobster served two ways: on the right you have a lobster cappuccino sprinkled with lobster row and on the left you have a lobster sausage made with fennel seeds and This is a thick salad made with gorgon pumpkin seed oil, balsamic vinegar, and a little Slovenian sea salt. This is a sashimi presentation. I want to be sure none of these came from the Hudson, right? It would be bad if we had a couple more years left. ready to hang your pants up let me let me try a little bit of this because it's Toro, which is my favorite of all Toro, okay, then give him the rest of the cat, now okay, what's next.

Hudson Valley Duckman's breast is seared on the skin side is made in a light brine with a little hoison and served with a roasted onion juli that is made with shiso, okay kidding with William and this It's a steamed bun with barbecue duck, pickled chives, enjoy, that's tremendous, it's a good bite. Do you like Ctha Brown? I like her, she's good with her team. Us here, that's nice, well that's pretty good, so I guess you're still good to your team because they're still here. Just check the camera, yeah, and know if it's good. Yes that's fine.

She remembers her birthday well. I bet you don't do that. I don't, no, no, what are your favorite places to go? I thought Stockholm was a really beautiful city, although I did have problems with the police driving a golf cart. On the street in the middle of the night, where do I like to go? I thought of the Philippines. I always thought the thing to do would be to have a PT Boat, just get a used PT Boat that has like half a dozen torpedoes so no one would ever really know that you wouldn't have that problem with pirates and then you would just go island hopping. island on PT Boat?

What the hell? This is the uh Cowboy riy for two. We think you want to finish nice and light. Wow, it's amazing and SAU. bres classic beautiful okay, let's have sandwiches tomorrow the team is going to eat later welcome to the Hudson Valley, where you've been all my life, you're within sight of me I guess I can see my house from here no, I can see your house from here, that's the scary part, we take out the telescope later, you're like within sight distance of your house, I'm within sight distance of where I've lived for 30 years, what does it mean to be here in this place? and I know you'll find the answer to this because you seem to find it in your show, what's the meaning of finding great food served by people who care in a place like that Henry.

Hudson reached 400 years to go