Your mom's crush is opening a gigantic food wonderland in NYC and it's going to be epic.
Anthony Bourdain's Bourdain Market is slated for a late 2017 opening date at Pier 57 in New York City, reports the New York Times.
This isn't some Eataly knockoff, and it goes beyond the grassroots effort that launched Smorgasburg to national notoriety. This is a full-fledged hawker-stall-cum-gastro-carnival sanctioned by the original food sex symbol himself.
The $60 million, 155,000 square foot food hall (New York's largest) will feature specialty retailers and eateries. Expect a full-service restaurant helmed by superstar restrauteurs Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield, late hours to accommodate those midnight cravings for street food and an outpost of hometown favorite Xi'an Famous Foods. Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers (not really the last one) will reside alongside about 100 food stalls run by renowned food vendors from around the world.
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Food lovers can look forward to uni tostadas from Mexico's La Guerrenese, the namesake dish from Singapore's Geylang Claypot Rice and more likewise dishes from around the world prepared by the people who grew up cooking them.
Bourdain, whose main partner in the venture is retail entrepreneur Stephen Werther, tells the New York Times, "The way people eat has changed... They want to be at counters and communal tables."
"They’re as quick to brag about the greatest $3 bowl of laksa as a dinner at Ducasse. That’s what I want to create for New York, some place where I would want to eat. Right now, there is nothing like that.”
All signs point to a hit.