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.
“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. – Abby Hoffman, Activist Buenos Aires – The subject of finding a good hamburger in town came up several times recently on the internet – a travel forum and a couple of expat forums. It was an instant blood in the water with circling sharks fest, as some touted… Read More The Great Hamburguesa Roundup
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard, Beard on Food, 1974 Buenos Aires – No, I’m not switching to political commentary. At least not really. Anyone with access to world media knows there’s a conflict, a fight, a war, going on in the Middle East, and specifically at the moment, the… Read More Conflict in Lebanon
“And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!” – Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche, an allusion to the Latin adage “de gustibus non est disputandum” or “there is no disputing about tastes” Buenos Aires – A few… Read More Raw Fish Tastes
Buenos Aires – Mexican food is not a big thing in Argentina. In fact, it lays claim to the foundation of a much used ethnic slur here. Serve something with a bit too much spice to many an Argentine and the response is, “What do I look like, a Mexican?” I’ve hear it more times… Read More Wrap It Up! In a Tortilla Please
Buenos Aires – One of the things that professional and good home bakers know, is that to reproduce many high quality breads over and over, you need a mother. Not the woman who tied you to her apron strings when you were four, but more of a wiggly mass of flour, water, and yeast that… Read More Mother of Breads
Buenos Aires – There are certain things you don’t notice you’re missing until you notice you’re missing them. Tautology at its best. One of those, for me, turned out to be oysters on the half shell. I can’t remember the last time I had any. And truthfully, I wasn’t missing them. Until I was passing… Read More On the Half Shell
Buenos Aires – The menu is extensive, going on for more than a dozen pages. An entire page of dim sum style dishes “tapas”, several pages of chicken dishes, several of beef, pork, fish and shellfish, even things like eel and frog grace the menu. An entire page devoted to tofu and another to vegetable… Read More Where are the Five Lambs?
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”… Read More Song of the South