A BIOPIC centred on illustrious chef and food writer Anthony Bourdain is set for a wider American theatre release tomorrow, August 21. 
Highlighting Anthony’s formative early years working in Massachusetts, Tony is based on stories from his memoir Kitchen Confidential. 
The film was released theatrically earlier this month, with a wider national release slated for tomorrow. 
Rising star Dominic Sessa takes on the larger-than-life role of young Tony, a 19-year-old aspiring writer who flies by the seat of his pants. 
The smooth-talker ends up moving to a coastal town pretending to have already gotten into a writing fellowship to which he applied, but when that doesn’t pan out, takes a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant, learning under the tutelage of a chef, played by the magnetic Antonio Banderas. 
Emilia Jones, best known for her starring role in Locke & Key, plays his love interest - secondary, of course, to his primary love for food. 
While there are some grumbles about the adaptation of the story for the big screen, critics have mainly given the movie positive reviews, despite its deviations from Anthony’s own life. 
The real Anthony Bourdain made the jump from the kitchen to the printed word with an essay published in The New Yorker and became an overnight household name with his New York Times best-selling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
Known for his no-holds-barred writing and talking, he became best known for his Travel Channel programme No Reservations, which ran from 2005 to 2012, before he went on to host Parts Unknown for CNN.
Tributes that poured in after his death-by-suicide described him as the ‘original rock star of the culinary world’.