Today’s guest is a global tv star, bestselling author, food obsessive and one of the most beloved members of one of Netflix’s biggest ever shows…Antoni Porowski.

You’ll know Antoni as the much-loved food and wine expert from Netflix’s global phenomenon Queer Eye, where for ten seasons he helped people transform not just the way they cooked and ate, but the way they saw themselves.

Antoni’s own story is such a fascinating journey in itself. In today’s episode, we travel through his life from childhood road trips to the North Carolina coast and the first meal that truly blew his mind, to the trip he saved up for as a young waiter in New York that made him fall completely in love with travel.

We talk about the years before Queer Eye, when he was auditioning, working in restaurants, hustling, and trying to find his way in New York, and what it felt like when the show suddenly changed everything.

And, of course, we dive into his new National Geographic series, Best of the World with Antoni Porowski, which takes him to Paris, Mexico City, London and New York.

Destination Recap:

Holly: AKI Family Resort, Italy

• Pennsylvania, USA
• New York City, USA
• Philadelphia, USA
• Montreal, Canada
• September Cafe, Montreal, Canada
• Rotisserie Italienne, Montreal, Canada
• McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Mount Royal, Montreal, Canada
• Outremont, Montreal, Canada
• Le Merc, Montreal, Canada
• Bilboquet, Montreal, Canada
• Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA
• Dirty Dick’s Crab House, Cape Hatteras, USA
• The Labrador, Cape Hatteras, USA
• Canadian Hole, Cape Hatteras, USA
• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
• West Virginia, USA
• Vancouver, Canada
• Florence, Italy
• Rome, Italy
• Mexico City, Mexico
• Roma Norte, Mexico City, Mexico
• Rosetta, Mexico City, Mexico
• Canals of Mexico City, Mexico
• Alebrijes Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
• Museo de Arte Popular / Folkloric Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
• Borneo, Malaysia
• Kuching, Malaysia
• Iban longhouses, Sarawak, Malaysia
• Kuching waterfront / canal, Kuching, Malaysia
• Kuching food kiosks, Kuching, Malaysia
• Fire Island, New York, USA
• Long Island, New York, USA
• Ibiza, Spain
• Iceland
• Istanbul, Turkey
• Morocco 
• Patagonia, Argentina/Chile

Best of the World with Antoni Porowski premieres June 7 on National Geographic and will be available to stream June 8 on Disney+ and Hulu. 

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