Anthony Bourdain, the American chef and travel guru known for eating anything (hello, still-beating cobra heart), doesn’t share Australians’ lust for quality coffee.

The international man of discerning gastronomic opinions says “There are few things I care about less than coffee.” Huh?

He shared his travel tips with Bon Appetit, and was pretty cut and dry when asked about his coffee strategy for travelling abroad.

“I have two big cups every morning: light and sweet, preferably in cardboard cup,” he said.

“Any bodega will do. I don’t want to wait for my coffee. I don’t want some man-bun, Mumford and Son motherf*cker to get it for me. I like good coffee but I don’t want to wait for it, and I don’t want it with the cast of Friends. It’s a beverage; it’s not a lifestyle.”

Umm, we hope someone has warned him about Bondi before his next visit down under.

He also doesn’t eat on airplanes, but it’s not because of the super high sodium levels of stodgy in-flight meals. Bourdain skips the meal service simply so he can eat more of the local food at his destination.

“No one has ever felt better after eating plane food. I think people only eat it because they’re bored. I don’t eat on planes. I like to arrive hungry.” Now that’s a pro-tip, but perhaps not one on a long haul to Australia.

Bourdain also listed Beirut as the up and coming destination for hungry travellers.

“The food’s delicious, the people are awesome. It’s a party town. And everything wrong with the world is there. Hopefully, you will come back smarter about the world,” he said.

“You’ll understand a little more about how uninformed people are when they talk about that part of the world. You’ll come back as I did: changed and cautiously hopeful and confused in the best possible way. Travel at its best defies expectations. Yes, it’s divided. There are Shia neighborhoods, Christian areas—but they all go to the same restaurants. You can go from bikinis by the pool to Hezbollah in an 8-minute cab ride. They all coexist in a weird way. That’s part of the thing that makes Beirut so interesting.”

Presumably the coffee is just average, but who is he to care?