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La Plata - It was time yesterday for another festival of a Virgin. Not being Catholic, all these virgins are quite confusing to me. I knew there were saints for every day of the year, multiple saints per day in many cases. I’m learning that there are Virgins for basically every community out there. The [...]

Buenos Aires - I’ve complained in the past here about the lack of variety in sushi. It’s generally salmon, salmon, and more salmon. Occasionally there’s a little tuna, octopus, or shrimp thrown in, but then it’s usually back to more salmon. So I wasn’t expecting much yesterday while out wandering in Palermo and came across [...]

Buenos Aires - Europe (and slowly spreading to other areas) has its Michelin Tire Company which produces the famed Michelin Guides to restaurants. It seems fitting, somehow, that the name of Argentina’s largest production tire company is FATE, especially when I started thinking about a restaurant guide here on SaltShaker. I get regular e-mails from [...]

Buenos Aires - That’s Indian Spirit as in the nation of India as opposed to the local indigenous population. I found myself in downtown and had in the back of my mind one of the city’s few Indian restaurants, Mumbai, Paraguay 436, as a place to try. My visiting friend from India had tried it [...]

Buenos Aires - Several local friends had asserted that the parrilla Miranda, Costa Rica 5602, in Palermo, was a must. One or two even claimed it was likely the best parrilla in the city. That’s a pretty big claim in a city that specializes in steakhouses. Having heard it more than once, I’d decided to [...]

Buenos Aires - In June of 1806, 1,500 British troops arrived in this area with the intent to capture the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the major port cities defending the Rio de la Plata. Outnumbered, they continued this attempt for nearly a year, laying siege to the city of Buenos Aires. The Spanish, [...]

Buenos Aires - I had this whimsical idea for part of my wanderings of the city. Virtually every street here is named after an event, a person, or another place. It’s not one of those cities where you find things like Meadowlark Lane or Blueberry Hill. So why not pick a theme and gradually cover [...]

Buenos Aires - Met up with a new friend for lunch. He’s visiting from India with an eye towards moving here. I’ve been wanting to continue my vegetarian restaurant research (not that either of us is vegetarian, but it had come up), and we’d discussed trying one of the couple of Indian vegetarian options, but [...]