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.
“Things only have the value that we give them.” – Molière, 17th Century French Writer 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 section of the barrio. Tree-lined streets, seating outdoors… Read More Tourist Trap? Or Just Better?
“I’ve been around long enough to know that the more we get criticized, the more on track we are.” – Tom Monaghan, Founder of Domino’s Pizza Buenos Aires – I grew up around Domino’s Pizza. Back in the day, Tom Monaghan started out with one small pizza shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan, called Dominick’s that he… Read More Franchised Pizza
“Some things are being destroyed, because the Italians are just as tired of their basic food as the Americans and French were 20 years ago. So they’re reinventing to avoid palate exhaustion.” – Mario Batali, Chef Buenos Aires – I’m not quite at the point of calling it a trend, but there’s definitely a current… Read More Not Just by the Numbers
“One farmer says to me, ”You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him… Read More Heresy in the Land of Carnivores
“The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.” – Mason Cooley, American aphorist, Professor of English Colonia del Sacramento – It was time for that quarterly visa dance that so many of us living here on our tourist visas have to do. We have options – we can travel lots,… Read More Dos Chivitos
“The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, calling them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops,… Read More A Great Perhaps
“When I wish to make a wish I wave my hand with a big swish swish. Then I say, “I wish for fish!” And I get fish right on my dish.” – Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, 1960 Buenos Aires – I met up for lunch with a couple of… Read More One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” – Winnie the Pooh Buenos Aires – Some places are clearly setup for the business lunch crowd. Location, location, location to start. Simple, but interesting food, quick service, and a decent selection… Read More Lunch Break