Most restaurants inspired by Anthony Bourdain hang a quote on the wall and stop there. Tommy Plato, a decade into running Old Town’s best-known speakeasy, opened The Ends on Stetson Drive in 2024 and built the menu the way Bourdain traveled: Laos sausage, nigiri and bison on one card, plus a glassed-in pasta room for good measure.
On paper it sounds incoherent. On the table it hangs together, the way a good trip does.
When to go: a late seating on a Thursday, after the ArtWalk crowd has done the galleries. Reserve for weekend prime time; the bar takes walk-ins.