Globe-trotting chef Anthony Bourdain arrived in Beirut yesterday to film an episode of his Travel Channel show “No Reservations” just in time to be stuck behind the Israeli blockade. But the ever-nonchalant bad-boy chef couldn’t even be rattled by the sound of bombs dropping in the vicinity. He phoned in to Page Six from his mobile office – downing mojitos in the bar at the Mövenpick resort – to give Richard Johnson a report from the, er, front lines:

“Our network, our friends and our families just want us out of here as soon as possible,” Bourdain told Page Six yesterday afternoon, as Israeli shells exploded in the distance. “We’re not getting a show out of this . . . I just wanna hang out and drink at the bar. The mojitos here are great.

“They’re bombing right now in southern Beirut. I can hear the explosions. The thing is, the people here are really, really nice and totally embarrassed by Hezbollah and horrified by the bombings.”

Previously:
- “No Reservations“