http://www.saltshaker.net/20060117/mondays Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:59:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060117/mondays#comment-3024 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » All That Glitters is not Flax Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:25:52 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=234#comment-3024 [...] My one disappointment at Flor de Lino, the coffee. An espresso that had to be a good 4 ounces or more, at least double what it should have been, watery and bitter. Given the care and quality that goes into the rest of the food, I was surprised, clearly it hasn’t been given the attention it deserves, and the waiters haven’t been trained to make it well. I wouldn’t, however, hesitate to go back and eat there again (by the way, weekdays, lunch only, Saturday and Sunday, dinner only). Besides, it’s on my favorite little street in the city. [...] [...] My one disappointment at Flor de Lino, the coffee. An espresso that had to be a good 4 ounces or more, at least double what it should have been, watery and bitter. Given the care and quality that goes into the rest of the food, I was surprised, clearly it hasn’t been given the attention it deserves, and the waiters haven’t been trained to make it well. I wouldn’t, however, hesitate to go back and eat there again (by the way, weekdays, lunch only, Saturday and Sunday, dinner only). Besides, it’s on my favorite little street in the city. [...]

]]> http://www.saltshaker.net/20060117/mondays#comment-531 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Song of the South Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:38:15 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=234#comment-531 [...] Buenos Aires - It’s bad enough that the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from Disney’s Song of the South is stuck running through my head for the last 20 hours. It’s worse to realize that I actually know all the lyrics. I know how the song got there. I had lunch yesterday at Mítico Sur, the “Mythical South”, Pasaje San Lorenzo 389 in San Telmo - from there it was only a small series of logical leaps to the movie and the song. I noticed several interesting looking restaurants during my brief tour of the pasaje a couple of months ago, and since I was in the neighborhood yesterday, decided to check at least one of them out. I made a good choice in picking this one. [...] [...] Buenos Aires - It’s bad enough that the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from Disney’s Song of the South is stuck running through my head for the last 20 hours. It’s worse to realize that I actually know all the lyrics. I know how the song got there. I had lunch yesterday at Mítico Sur, the “Mythical South”, Pasaje San Lorenzo 389 in San Telmo - from there it was only a small series of logical leaps to the movie and the song. I noticed several interesting looking restaurants during my brief tour of the pasaje a couple of months ago, and since I was in the neighborhood yesterday, decided to check at least one of them out. I made a good choice in picking this one. [...]

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