http://www.saltshaker.net/20060221/tasting-menu Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:13:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060221/tasting-menu#comment-78666 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Checkered Pass Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:16:39 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060221/tasting-menu#comment-78666 [...] in Palermo, 4802-2391. While no one ever directly equated it with the experience at La Boca’s Don Carlos, it had the ring of the same sort of setup, but significantly higher class. I have to beg to [...] [...] in Palermo, 4802-2391. While no one ever directly equated it with the experience at La Boca’s Don Carlos, it had the ring of the same sort of setup, but significantly higher class. I have to beg to [...]

]]> http://www.saltshaker.net/20060221/tasting-menu#comment-7772 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Not So Buena Vista Social Club Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:14:50 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060221/tasting-menu#comment-7772 [...] Now, erase that picture from your mind. I should have known better, I mean Grant and I have never gone to one of those lounges - we go to places like Don Carlos or la cocina… “Club” Eros, is an old-fashioned, neighborhood, social and athletic club. It’s a gymnasium. Really. There are kids jumping rope, playing tag, running, screaming, girls sitting in the corner playing with dolls, boys in the corner tearing wings off of flies… I don’t know - it looked like recess at any school - with a mix of kids from late single digits to early teens. If you look off to the right of the main entrance halway, there’s a room with rickety wooden tables and chairs, and people are sitting their eating. Not the kids, it was mostly neighborhood guys, from their 20s to their 90s, hanging out, arguing about sports, and watching a bit of futbol on the t.v. mounted over the bar at one end of the room. [...] [...] Now, erase that picture from your mind. I should have known better, I mean Grant and I have never gone to one of those lounges - we go to places like Don Carlos or la cocina… “Club” Eros, is an old-fashioned, neighborhood, social and athletic club. It’s a gymnasium. Really. There are kids jumping rope, playing tag, running, screaming, girls sitting in the corner playing with dolls, boys in the corner tearing wings off of flies… I don’t know - it looked like recess at any school - with a mix of kids from late single digits to early teens. If you look off to the right of the main entrance halway, there’s a room with rickety wooden tables and chairs, and people are sitting their eating. Not the kids, it was mostly neighborhood guys, from their 20s to their 90s, hanging out, arguing about sports, and watching a bit of futbol on the t.v. mounted over the bar at one end of the room. [...]

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