In last week’s San Francisco episode of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain visited the Tadich Grill to eat a hangtown fry, a dish he called “an abomination against God and civilization.” What, exactly, is a hangtown fry? Put simply: it’s an omelette that includes bacon and oysters, with an origin story with one of those epic food legends.
It’s kind of about the strange, uncomfortable feeling of reuniting with old friends only to find that the magic just isn’t there anymore – and in turn, about the melancholy “nothing will ever be as good as it used to be” type of nostalgia, of which I am increasingly fond. And of course, a tribute to the late, great, wood-paneled, shag-carpeted 1970′s rec room.


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