Anthony Bourdain To Open a Massive, Blade Runner-Inspired Food Market

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain hopes to open a 100,000-square-foot International Food Market at the newly renovated SuperPier on Pier 57 in New York City inspired by Blade Runner, Consequence of Sound reports.

“It is meant to be crowded and chaotic because that’s what hawker centres should be,” said Bourdain’s partner Stephen Wether at the 2015 World Street Food Congress in Singapore. “It should activate all of your senses.”

The market in Blade Runner fit with the rest of the overcrowded, overstimulating, congested and often just insane elements of the dystopian future the film built.

“It’s a bit more chaotic than how the hawkers markets are organized [in Singapore],” Wether said. “Hopefully, it will be as crowded and popular. But it is supposed to be a mash-up of foods, styles, smells, tastes and visuals.”

Plans are for the center to open in 2017, and Google will reportedly have a significant presence as well, having bought up nearly all of the available office space in the development. The plan is for a wide variety of foods to be available to New Yorkers in one central location, according to Bourdain. CoS reports that the 100,000-square-foot market will include “a farmers market, hawker-style street food stalls, a 1,500-square-foot oyster bar, a bakery, butchers, a taps bar, a tea shop, a pastry shop, and potentially even an outdoor Asian-themed beer garden.”