Television series
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
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David Chang and rotating celebrity guests explore a single city across three meals, using food as a gateway to culture, conversation, and self-discovery. It's intimate and digressive—less about restaurant reviews than what happens when two interesting people sit down together. For anyone who believes the best travel happens between bites.
Should you watch it?
Watch it if you enjoy food travel shows where the conversation wanders as much as the meals, and a host's own curiosity about a place matters more than a checklist of restaurants.
Skip it if you want a tight, plot-driven series or a hard-hitting food documentary; this one is loose, chatty and built around two people getting along rather than around any argument.
What it asks of you: Four episodes of about forty-four minutes each, unhurried and conversational, so it rewards settling in over a long evening rather than being played in the background.
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People
Cast
Production
- Blake DavisExecutive Producer
- Caryn CapotstoExecutive Producer
- Christopher C. ChenExecutive Producer
- Dara HorenblasExecutive Producer
- David ChangExecutive Producer
- Morgan NevilleExecutive Producer