TREJO RECALLS MEETING BOURDAIN
Los Angeles: Veteran Mexican actor, Danny Trejo has recalled his experience of shooting an episode of Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain when the globetrotting celebrity chef ’ s visited his restaurant.
The 74- year old actor, who owns a series of restaurants in Los Angeles, said that when Bourdain turned up at Trejo’s Cantina it felt Like, “getting visited by the Pope”.
“When he walked in, it was like getting visited by the Pope. If you’re in the food industry, he was the Pope,” Trejo told to the Hollywood Reporter.
“It was the first time, I’ve ever heard the whole restaurant quiet. We didn’t even have to say, ‘Rolling ’. Everyone was just quiet, and they wanted to hear what he said. He was just so gracious, and he didn’t said a bad thing,” he added.
The restaurant got featured on a Los Angeles’s episode of Parts Unknown in April 2017.
Another of the Machete actor’s restaurant, Trejo’s Tacos, which had opened in 2016, also got featured in the season nine premiere of Parts Unknown.
Trejo said “Bourdain loved his cauliflower tacos and jackfruit. I was so proud. You do something and the Pope tells you that it’s good, it almost brings you to tears,” Trejo said, adding that Bourdain which “made me feel good that I was in the restaurant business”.
Bourdain, 61, died of suicide while in France where he was filming an episode of his Emmywinning CNN food and travel programme.
Trejo had also tweeted his condolences.