Author/Chef Anthony Bourdain: Five Questions from Eater.com’s Ben Leventhal.

BL: What restaurants and chefs are you excited about right now? Are there any new places you’re eager to try?
TB: I think Grant Achatz at Alinea in Chicago is doing really forward looking, exciting, high quality stuff. But most of the food that pleases me these days is casual, ethnic and free of the pomp and circumstance and potential exhaustion that comes with a fine dining tasting menu.

Yes.