Parts Unknown

Bourdain ate: octopus, fish Lunch date: Lydia Lunch, musician and actor

Lunch date: Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, members of the band Blondie

Bourdain had: beer Drink dates: Brooke Davis, New Alexandria demolition driver. Chris Quenzler Jr., welder and one of best demo mechanics in the New Alexandria area.

Bourdain had: Gnocchi with beetroot fondue, ravioli in tomato sauce, braised beef and polenta. Lunch dates: Chef Eric Ripert, Jean-Marie Christille, longtime resident of the region.

Bourdain ate: baba au rhum in a jar, a bagel. Lunch date: Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft and lead author of Modernist Cuisine; Francisco Migoya, head chef of the Modernist Cuisine culinary team.

Bourdain had: crab, bacon, and melted cheese sandwich; drinks. Dinner and drinks date: retired Seattle homicide detective Mike Ciesynski, Fred Moody.

Bourdain ate: oysters; flash-fried whole local smelt served with pepperoncini sambal aioli; local dungeness crab, chilled and cooked with pickled ginger sauce. Lunch dates: Fred Moody, writer of books including Unspeakable Joy and Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, and bartender at Shanghai Room; Jack Whisner, transit planner for King County metro; Knute Berger, Seattle magazine columnist and Pugetopolis.

Bourdain had: drinks and tapas. Dinner date: Mark Lanegan, singer-songwriter, formerly with Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and many other acts, and artist behind Parts Unknown theme song; Jeff Fielder, touring guitarist.

Bourdain ate: a hearty lunch of ribs, baked potato, and roast chicken. Lunch dates: Football Coach Mike Anderson, Coach Larry Thompson, and players, Fred “Fatback” Minco, Micah “Woody” McLaughlin, Cole “Chavo” Anderson.

Tony had dinner with the McKinney family, “a typical expression of hard-scrabble Appalachian practicality,” combined with “Neapolitan roots”: spaghetti pizza, chicken stew with peas and onions, pumpkin pie cake.