Comments on: Lola Lo Lo Lo Lo Lola http://www.saltshaker.net/20060116/lola-lo-lo-lo-lo-lola Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:29:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Crawling Around http://www.saltshaker.net/20060116/lola-lo-lo-lo-lo-lola#comment-9707 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Crawling Around Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:56:03 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=233#comment-9707 [...] I may as well start close to home and drop in at Lola. I realize that steak tartare is not everyone’s choice for beginning the day, but it works for me, and this is my appetizer crawl… and besides, it’s just so darned good. [...] [...] I may as well start close to home and drop in at Lola. I realize that steak tartare is not everyone’s choice for beginning the day, but it works for me, and this is my appetizer crawl… and besides, it’s just so darned good. [...]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Tourist Trap? Or Just Better? http://www.saltshaker.net/20060116/lola-lo-lo-lo-lo-lola#comment-1669 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Tourist Trap? Or Just Better? Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:30:22 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=233#comment-1669 [...] Buenos Aires - There’s a two block strip along the south side of the Recoleta cemetery lined with restaurants. They tend towards the expensive - it’s the trendy part of the wealthy part of the barrio. Tree-lined streets, seating outdoors in good weather, touts trying in Spanglish to entice tourists to dine. The big differences between this “tourist trap” and that of Puerto Madero are two - first, more if not most of your fellow diners here will be locals, and second, though just as expensive, for the most part I find better value - higher quality, more interesting food. I’ve enjoyed dinners at Lola, lunches at Munich, coffee and people watching (though not the burger) at La Biela, and only once had a bad food experience, at H.J. Bean’s, thankfully closed. Yesterday lunch I headed with a new visiting friend from Chicago, a food writer, for lunch at Munich. It was a gloriously beautiful day and we wanted to sit outside, which unfortunately it turns out, Munich doesn’t offer. He wanted to try porteño cuisine, so we decided to take a chance on one of the several parrillas lining the strip. [...] [...] Buenos Aires - There’s a two block strip along the south side of the Recoleta cemetery lined with restaurants. They tend towards the expensive - it’s the trendy part of the wealthy part of the barrio. Tree-lined streets, seating outdoors in good weather, touts trying in Spanglish to entice tourists to dine. The big differences between this “tourist trap” and that of Puerto Madero are two - first, more if not most of your fellow diners here will be locals, and second, though just as expensive, for the most part I find better value - higher quality, more interesting food. I’ve enjoyed dinners at Lola, lunches at Munich, coffee and people watching (though not the burger) at La Biela, and only once had a bad food experience, at H.J. Bean’s, thankfully closed. Yesterday lunch I headed with a new visiting friend from Chicago, a food writer, for lunch at Munich. It was a gloriously beautiful day and we wanted to sit outside, which unfortunately it turns out, Munich doesn’t offer. He wanted to try porteño cuisine, so we decided to take a chance on one of the several parrillas lining the strip. [...]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Elegance; at a Price http://www.saltshaker.net/20060116/lola-lo-lo-lo-lo-lola#comment-424 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Elegance; at a Price Thu, 18 May 2006 13:00:31 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=233#comment-424 [...] Buenos Aires - There are “known” areas of restaurants situated in or near enclaves of the porteño elite and/or wealthy. Small groups of restaurants where it can be counted on to find more suits, scarves, and silver hair per square meter than a Dick Cheney fundraising lunch. One such strip is along Roberto M. Ortiz, near to the Recoleta cemetery, and just a shade east of the touristy popular cemetery strip of clubs and TGIF imitations. Here you can find elegant places like Lola, La Biela, and, yesterday found my friend Michael and I at Munich Recoleta, number 1871. Subtract the two of us and the busboy out of the equation and the average age of the several dozen folk in the room was somewhere in their late 60s or early 70s. The waiters too. Curtained windows, large tables and booths, white tablecloths, a tuxedoed maitre d’, and a dozen animal heads staring down at the dining room from their mountings around the room, and, not a tourist in sight, complete the picture. [...] [...] Buenos Aires - There are “known” areas of restaurants situated in or near enclaves of the porteño elite and/or wealthy. Small groups of restaurants where it can be counted on to find more suits, scarves, and silver hair per square meter than a Dick Cheney fundraising lunch. One such strip is along Roberto M. Ortiz, near to the Recoleta cemetery, and just a shade east of the touristy popular cemetery strip of clubs and TGIF imitations. Here you can find elegant places like Lola, La Biela, and, yesterday found my friend Michael and I at Munich Recoleta, number 1871. Subtract the two of us and the busboy out of the equation and the average age of the several dozen folk in the room was somewhere in their late 60s or early 70s. The waiters too. Curtained windows, large tables and booths, white tablecloths, a tuxedoed maitre d’, and a dozen animal heads staring down at the dining room from their mountings around the room, and, not a tourist in sight, complete the picture. [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online http://www.saltshaker.net/20060116/lola-lo-lo-lo-lo-lola#comment-147 Global Voices Online Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:56:33 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=233#comment-147 <strong>Peru: Presidential Candidate, Ollanta Humala...</strong> Un Lobo en Perú profiles Peruvian presidential candidate, Ollanta Humala whose popularity among registered voters has soared in recent months. Maxwell A. Cameron writes that Humala has been implicated in human rights abuses which took place in ... Peru: Presidential Candidate, Ollanta Humala…

Un Lobo en Perú profiles Peruvian presidential candidate, Ollanta Humala whose popularity among registered voters has soared in recent months. Maxwell A. Cameron writes that Humala has been implicated in human rights abuses which took place in …

]]> By: Global Voices Online http://www.saltshaker.net/20060116/lola-lo-lo-lo-lo-lola#comment-144 Global Voices Online Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:22:49 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=233#comment-144 <strong>Global Fusion: Creating Delicious Food One Meal at the Time!...</strong> #1: Madrid Fusion My colleague Chef Elena was in Spain with three other Panamanian chefs, for the  world famous "Madrid Fusion" one week event, held in the beautiful city of Madrid. No doubt this is an incredible event. It will set the... Global Fusion: Creating Delicious Food One Meal at the Time!…

#1: Madrid Fusion
My colleague Chef Elena was in Spain with three other Panamanian chefs, for the  world famous "Madrid Fusion" one week event, held in the beautiful city of Madrid. No doubt this is an incredible event. It will set the…

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