Was that really Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin kitchen in HBO’s Treme?
As if great acting, great stories, and amazing music weren’t enough to make HBO’s Treme (now in its second season) worth watching, the producers have stirred a culinary plot line into the show and hired celebrity chef extraordinaire, Anthony Bourdain to help write it for them. Since the city of New Orleans is as much a character on the show as Davis or Ladonna or Antoine, it isn’t surprising to get glimpses into actual New Orleans restaurants; but, were the scenes in Eric Ripert’s famous New York seafood restaurant, Le Bernardin REALLY Le Bernardin?
