The Critics: “No Reservations”

New York Times critic Virginia Heffernan likes chef Anthony Bourdain’s new travel show, No Reservations, which debuts tonight on the Travel Channel. The show features the author of “Kitchen Confidential” traveling the globe, from Iceland to New Jersey, eating. (The travel show is not to be confused with a new sitcom in the works for Fox this fall based on “Kitchen Confidential.”)

Heffernan writes: “As in ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ there’s no reason Mr. Bourdain shouldn’t be annoying, another aspiring Paul Auster who talks too much about himself and his edge. But he is good company. He says he wishes he were a ‘sort of unflappable, sort of sad, but fatalistic French hero’—and thank God he’s not. Rather, he’s got a well-developed sense of a good time.”

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