Always at The Carlyle (2018)
Anthony Bourdain: Self
Quotes
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Anthony Bourdain : I stay at many different types of hotels. And I'm reasonably happy at a lot of them. But, we're talking about love. Like someone you fall in love with, its the eccentricities that you embrace as much as anything else - if not more. so
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Anthony Bourdain : You're holding your breathe. How much longer can - can this exist? Its completely awesome and, frankly, nuts.
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Anthony Bourdain : Bemelmans Bar is really unique and I don't know of any similarly decorated bars, with the kind of personal history, that this place has. It is the last place where you can see a public installation of the works of Ludwig Bamelmans. There's no where else! This is it. Above and beyond the fact that you can see "Madeline" on the wall and how beloved Bemelmans characters from those books are, there is much, much more to Bemelmans - much more - than the "Madeline" books.
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Anthony Bourdain : I don't know whether profit comes first here. There is an eccentricity, there is an identity, there is a tradition here, that must be served. And I think they're aware of that. They're not screwing things up by changing them. It is a weird, what I think is dysfunctional, what I mean by dysfunctional, is that it could be a lot more cold blooded. They could probably be taking in a lot more money if they were appealing for a wider, more middle ground. A certain type of people like this place.
