I think I’d have to agree with you. So far the pork dishes have been excellent. The terremoto may be relatively new (though, that’s 25 years ago now), but it’s certainly more interesting than the ubiquitous pisco sour.

I was, more or less, kidding about the café con piernas – not exactly my cup of…. errr… espresso? I did poke into the original Café Haiti just to see what it’s all about, not unexpectedly, the young ladies with bared legs do little for me – the muscle-boy barristas in tight polo shirts were a tad more interesting. But, the coffee, pretty bad, though still better than the ubiquitous Nescafe.

You’re right, technically, on he timing on the change in the Argentina peso to the dollar, but if you add four months to the year, it zoomed from 3 to 3.5 to the dollar.

It’s a little early for serious cafe con piernas, but for a long time such places were the only choice for real caffeine junkies (which I’m not) in Santiago. I will mention, however, that the landmark El Bolsón ice creamery Jauja has opened a branch just one block from my apartment, at the corner of Lafinur and Cerviño. I would place the original among my top three ice creameries in Argentina, and so far it doesn’t appear to have lost anything in the expansion – despite the distance from Patagonia. You gotta try it.

So far, at least, I’m just not finding it to be that much more expensive, and some stuff quite comparable. I still have some of your recommendations to try out or writeup, so we shall see… could some of the diffference in price also be due to the Argentine peso’s change against the dollar from 3:1 to nearly 4:1? It may be that because I operate in Argentine pesos normally, that the change isn’t as visible as it is if we were comparing dollar amounts…. or maybe that’s backwards, economics gives me a headache. I think I better go out for some café con piernas.