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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 episode based on Singapore. The format and the content of the show are based on what a traveler can do, eat, visit and enjoy within 24 to 48 hours in a city. Each episode starts with the host landing at the city, with the clock starting the countdown until the time that he will leave the city. As a seasoned traveler, he meets up with locals and explores the city in and out, within matters of hours, both the touristy way and the local way.
On February 15, 2012, Travel Channel renewed the show for the 2012/2013 season, selecting November 19, 2012 for the second season premiere; featured cities for the season include Atlanta, Chicago, Dublin, New Orleans, Paris, Philadelphia, São Paulo, Seattle, Toronto, and Taipei.
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- 01SingaporeTony'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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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01SingaporeNovember 21, 2011Tony's first 24-hour layover lands him in Singapore, a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities that all come together over a national obsess
- S01E02New YorkNovember 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 n
- S01E03RomeDecember 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 whirlwin
- S01E04MiamiDecember 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 archi
- S01E05Hong KongDecember 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
- S01E06MontrealDecember 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 gui
- S01E07AmsterdamJanuary 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 distr
- S01E08San FranciscoJanuary 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
- S01E09LondonJanuary 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
- S01E10Los AngelesJanuary 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
Season02
- S02E01ChicagoNovember 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
- S02E02ParisNovember 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 lo
- S02E03PhiladelphiaDecember 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
- S02E04Sao PauloDecember 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
- S02E05TorontoDecember 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
- S02E06DublinJanuary 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.
- S02E07AtlantaJanuary 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 Hole
- S02E08TaipeiJanuary 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 hav
- S02E09New OrleansJanuary 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 b
- S02E10SeattleFebruary 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
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