Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Bay Area
TV Flash files “Bay Area” as hour 44 of 95 in the TV Flash guide — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 6, episode 4, aired 2015-10-18, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E04: listed hour 44 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, hour 4 of 8 in season 6. It aired 2015-10-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Okinawa, Japan” (S06E03). Next is “Ethiopia” (S06E05).

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Bourdain visits the Bay Areas of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose to take a personal journey – in martial arts training with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor Kurt Osiander, and healing through food, featuring dinner at the original Trader Vic's with author Sean Wilsey (Oh the Glory of it All) and at soul food restaurant Real Miss Ollie's with Bobby Seale (Black Panthers founding member).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bay Area sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?
S06E04 is listed hour 44 of 95 — hour 4 of 8 in season 6, season 6 episode 4.
When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S06E04 air?
Bay Area aired 2015-10-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need to watch in order?
Each episode is a place. Jump by curiosity — Iran, Libya, Congo, or a city you think you already know. The ethic is consistent; the map is not a serial plot.
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Why this series still plays
Anthony Bourdain sits at tables through conflict and history, eating without tourist gloss. CNN as unlikely prestige: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Travel television with literary soul — curiosity as ethics — and a body of work that rewatches now as both journalism and a decade's memorial.
The first look is a table without tourist gloss. Anthony Bourdain sits with people around the world, eating through history and conflict — CNN series premiered **2013**, an unlikely network turned prestige destination: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Multiple Emmys. Episodes in Iran, Libya, Congo and more became teaching texts. Curiosity as ethics. Travel television with literary soul — the table as journalism, the plate as pretext for who gets to be seen. Tessa's tags will rank a "best bite." Let them.…
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Anthony Bourdain sat at tables through conflict and history on Parts Unknown — CNN as unlikely prestige, food as politics, loneliness, and grace, travel television with literary soul. Curiosity as ethics. TV Flash files him as the 2010s…