From the monthly archives:

December 2005

FATE Guide

2005.Dec.16 Friday

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 [...]

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Indian Spirit

2005.Dec.15 Thursday

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, Retiro, Honduras 5684, Palermo [Note: they moved about two years after this review, [...]

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Energy and Steak

2005.Dec.15 Thursday

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 [...]

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Paint By Numbers 2

2005.Dec.15 Thursday

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, [...]

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Paint By Numbers 1

2005.Dec.14 Wednesday

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 [...]

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Creative Organic

2005.Dec.12 Monday

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 [...]

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Park of the Patricians

2005.Dec.12 Monday

Buenos Aires – When I wander, I often like to wander without any particular aim. This has, once or twice, or perhaps more than that, landed me in some neighborhoods of the world that were, shall we say, less than savory. I’ve never ended up with a problem, though occasionally I find myself wondering just [...]

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O Linda, O Linda

2005.Dec.11 Sunday

 Oh Linda, oh Linda Oh Linda, oh Linda Oh my Linda, me Linda Oh my heart, oh Linda Oh my love, me Linda Your love is sweeter than wine, honey Oh wine, honey So please, please, baby I want your love o I want your children o, to be mine Please, please, marry me Oh, [...]

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Wandering San Telmo

2005.Dec.10 Saturday

Buenos Aires – The first time I vacationed in Buenos Aires I stayed in the neighborhood of San Telmo. Despite its touristy bent, it’s still one of my favorite neighborhoods to wander, with some of the more interesting, if dilapidated, architectural features to be found on homes; its central Mercado – a mixed farm stand, [...]

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