Restaurant reviews – the opinions expressed are solely my own. Often, though it will appear that they’re based on a single visit, they’re based on more than one. And I’m willing to hear from folks who disagree – I do know that restaurants, including my own, have their off days.
“Not bad. Not bad at all.” – Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady Buenos Aires – Continued on this last week with a visit to another of the septet of parrillas that Dereck Foster listed off in the Herald a few weeks back. We headed out to Belgrano, to El Pobre Luis, Arribeños 2393, 4780-5847,… Read More Not so Poor, Louis
“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” – Albert Einstein Buenos Aires – Feelin’ groovy… che…. This place is so mellow… It’s got soul… No, wait, it is soul… Soul Cafe, Báez 246, in Las… Read More Make Burgers, Not War
“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” – Henry Ellis, Psychologist Buenos Aires – It’s been a long time since I wrote up the review of my first tries of grilled pizzas here in BA. It’s probably getting to be about time to do a few… Read More Thin Crust
“High on a hill was a lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo” – opening lyrics to The Lonely Goatherd from The Sound of Music Buenos Aires – I’m going to trash a myth or two here… Read More Like a Herd of Goats
“And we may come to the feast tomorrow night, mayn’t we? We’re so longing for tomorrow night! And we do love being here. And while you’re out, we may run over the whole castle and see everything, mayn’t we? Do say yes.” – Jill, from The Silver Chair (fourth volume of The Chronicles of Narnia)… Read More The Chronicles of Shawarma: Book IV
“Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.” – Bill Cosby Buenos Aires – A couple of weeks ago, Dereck Foster of The Buenos Aires Herald published a… Read More Two Takes on Steaks
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt Buenos Aires – Forget that it looks like you’ve just stepped onto the set of an Austin Powers movie. Forget that you are surrounded by strip clubs and telos. Just relax and let… Read More A World Apart
“The ideal customer doesn’t come to El Bulli to eat,” Adria has declared, “but to have an experience,” inadvertently revealing not just the purpose of the operation, but also that there is an ideal customer, which may very well not be you, who merely wants to eat. The fact that eating is rather low down… Read More But did you taste it first?