So where does Anthony Bourdain – chef, writer, traveler – spend his night after bumping elbows with six of D.C.’s top chefs? Unsurprisingly, at Ben’s Chili bowl.

Keeping true to his inclinations for “adventurous” eating, Anthony Bourdain visited famed Ben’s Chili Bowl Tuesday night after having MC’ed D.C.’s annual Capital Food Fight.

“I loved it, it’s the kind of food I like,” responded Bourdain to a question during the Q&A session of his sold-out talk at Lisner Auditorium Wednesday night. “There’s something about ground mystery meat sitting under a burner at a suspect temperature,” said Bourdain, adding that to eat like him, one must love, “… spending quality time in the bathroom.”

Bourdain’s lecture, presented by the Smithsonian, was part of a promotional tour for his new book No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach.

Dressed in his signature tight jeans and pointed cowboy boots and dropping half a dozen F-bombs, a trio of Rachael Ray jokes, and a smattering of other curse words, Bourdain gave the crowd the persona they had come to adore, but unfortunately not much else.

Photo of Bourdain from his website.