SaltShaker

 When it rains, it pours.”
- Morton Salt slogan
Buenos Aires - It seems that word about Casa SaltShaker is trickling out into the world, bit by bit. In our third bit of press this month, we get the nod as part of a feature article on the website for GQ and Details magazines - Men.Style.Com - [...]

 Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them.”
- Will Rogers, Entertainer/Humorist
Buenos Aires - The new edition of Viñas, Bodegas & Vinos was released this week. Long time readers will possibly remember my review of last year’s edition and the launch event. Things changed quite a bit this year. First, and of course from [...]

 Have you heard of avoidance behavior? I have and I don’t want to talk about it.”
- Kevin Pollack, Comic Actor, The Whole Ten Yards
Buenos Aires - There is a chain of sushi bars scattered throughout Argentina, Spain, and Uruguay (or as their website puts it, Uruaguy), called Sushi Club. They’re easy to spot when you [...]

 There are strict rules govern every aspect of pizza making. The dough must be mixed from double-zero grade flour, fresh yeast and water only. … After mixing and rising, it must be shaped only by hand.
Toppings are also regulated–tomatoes should be the San Marzano variety, from a small town near Naples, and cheese must be [...]

Buenos Aires - Just a quick Casa S press release… so to speak. We were featured along with three other restaurants on the Salidas Gourmets page of the new, November 2006 issue of Clubs & Countries. A copy is on the press page of the Casa website.

 An important feature of Galicia is the presence of many fjord-like indentations on the coast, estuaries that were drowned with rising sea levels after the ice age. These are called rías and are divided into the Rías Altas, the Rías Medias, and the Rías Baixas. Most of the population live near the Rías Baixas, where [...]

 Stan Laurel: “We drank your liqueur.”
Mrs Laurel: “That wasn’t liqueur, it was cold tea.”
- From Blotto, 1930
Buenos Aires - About a month and a half ago here at Casa S we put on a dinner featuring spirits and liqueurs from what is arguably Argentina’s finest distillery, Tapaus. The food was received to rave reviews from [...]

 Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
- Alonso of Aragon, 15th Century Spanish Archbishop
Buenos Aires - An old friend has been visiting us in Buenos Aires this week after a whirlwind trip to Santiago and [...]