7.2/1032 votesLoading...#1 - Chicago
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/19/2012
Tony cruises around the Windy City, has a damn-good hot dog, has a drink with painter and blogger Bruce Cameron Elliott, and dines with Top Chef champion Stephanie Izard.
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- 7.3/1038 votesLoading...
#2 - Miami
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/12/2011
Paying homage to his love for Miami Vice, Tony Bourdain's Layover in Miami is full of hilarity as he takes in the South Beach Art Deco architecture scene and spots bikini clad roller bladers while cruising around in his red convertible.
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- 7.5/1047 votesLoading...
#3 - Amsterdam
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/2/2012
Anthony Bourdain visits Amsterdam for the first time since his "misspent youth" and learns there's more to the city than the red light district.
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- 7.5/1030 votesLoading...
#4 - Atlanta
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/14/2013
Anthony Bourdain heads to the “ATL” where he cruises around in a muscle car, shoots guns and experiences the famed 10 o'clock burger at Holeman & Finch. He wraps up his trip at the legendary adults-only Clermont Lounge.
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- 7.5/1022 votesLoading...
#5 - New Orleans
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/28/2013
In New Orleans, the town of excess, Tony indulges in fresh seafood, drinks Sazerac with Davis Rogan, hits The Kingpin and finishes off his bar crawl with tacos from one of the nation’s top 20 food trucks.
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- 7.6/1029 votesLoading...
#6 - Philadelphia
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/3/2012
Tony goes beyond the cheesesteak in Philadelphia. He dines on modern Israeli food with Marc Vetri, throws back the citywide special at Dirty Frank's and learns the real story behind the drinking and carousing of our Founding Fathers.
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- 7.6/1027 votesLoading...
#7 - Sao Paulo
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/10/2012
In Sao Paulo, Anthony Bourdain stays in an eccentric boat-shaped hotel, dines with friends at Alex Atala's famous D.O.M. restaurant, checks out the street graffiti with celebrated artist Speto and has nose-to-tail food at Mocoto.
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- 7.6/1031 votesLoading...
#8 - Dublin
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/2013
Anthony spends 36 hours in Dublin, Ireland, during which time he checks out the food scene and dines on sweetbreads, pork stew and lamb.
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- 7.7/1028 votesLoading...
#9 - Toronto
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/17/2012
Tony finds that there’s more to Toronto than what meets the eye. From nose-to-tail cuisine to authentic dim sum, Toronto has one of the most diverse food scenes in the world, and Tony attempts to see as much of it as he can in the little time he has.
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- 7.8/1041 votesLoading...
#10 - Montreal
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/26/2011
A Montreal Layover for Tony means calling up local friends like Martin Picard to explore the city's hot spots that can't be found in any guidebook. He sees first hand how intrinsic the local environment is to food and fun.
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- 7.8/1038 votesLoading...
#11 - London
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/16/2012
A layover in London, Tony's "home away from home," means catching up with chef friends Marco Pierre White and Fergus Henderson. He has just enough time for a few pints and a visit to a real-life little shop of horrors before his flight home.
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- 7.8/1039 votesLoading...
#12 - Los Angeles
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/23/2012
Tony has 48 hours to find the best food that LA has to offer. A huge city with ethnic enclaves spread out over 468 square miles. He stays at one of Hollywood's most luxurious and legendary hotels, Chateau Marmont.
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- 7.9/1047 votesLoading...
#13 - New York
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/28/2011
Tony takes on his hometown of NYC. Having lived and explored the city for years, Tony's better equipped then anybody to show even the most novice traveler, how to explore this diverse and fast paced city
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- 7.9/1043 votesLoading...
#14 - Hong Kong
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/19/2011
Tony finds himself on a Layover in the fast paced, fascinating city of Hong Kong...in the middle of summer. Sweltering heat, oppressive smog, and intermittent rain, add some sardonic twists to Tony's travels to the Far East.
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- 7.9/1039 votesLoading...
#15 - San Francisco
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/9/2012
Tony Bourdain finds himself in San Francisco, a city known by vegan and vegetarian lovers alike. He discovers that San Francisco is actually a "bare-knuckled, 2-fisted drinking town," where you can get a great meal of raw juicy meat for under $20.
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- 8.0/1051 votesLoading...
#16 - Singapore
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/21/2011
Tony's first 24-hour layover lands him in Singapore, a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities that all come together over a national obsession with food. Tony's friends take him on a tour of the hyper-modern city that manages to stay true to its culinary roots
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- 8.0/1030 votesLoading...
#17 - Paris
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/26/2012
In Paris, Tony does as the French do. He sips coffee at Le Pure Café, sits down at Le Dome for an enormous shellfish tower, discovers the lost art of bread baking and indulges in a guilty pleasure: a duck press.
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- 8.1/1038 votesLoading...
#18 - Seattle
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/4/2013
Who doesn't love a layover in Seattle? Bourdain indulges in runny and smelly cheeses at Calf and Kid, checks out the aerial view of the city from a seaplane and gets a not-so-family-friendly tour of Seattle's historical underbelly.
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- 8.2/1044 votesLoading...
#19 - Rome
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/5/2011
Tony has just over 30 hours to explore the Eternal City. From dusk till dark, he sets off to explore and eat as much as he can in a whirlwind tour, from the banks of the Tiber River, and deep into the crooked ancient alleyways.
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- 8.2/1039 votesLoading...
#20 - Taipei
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/21/2013
In Taipei, Anthony Bourdain visits the second-tallest building in the world. There he discovers pork carved out of jade, learns he can't have a plan in a bar scuffle and sees why scantily-clad women attend funerals.
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The Worst Episodes of Anthony Bourdain: The Layover
Every episode of Anthony Bourdain: The Layover ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Anthony Bourdain: The Layover!
The Layover is a travel and food show on the Travel Channel hosted by Anthony Bourdain. The show premiered on November 21, 2011 in an...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Chicago" is the worst rated episode of "Anthony Bourdain: The Layover". It scored 7.2/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/19/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Miami".