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.
Buenos Aires – These are mollejas, or as we know them in English, sweetbreads. Let’s face it, if a restaurant said, “hey, how about a nice plate of grilled pancreas?” they couldn’t give the things away. But then they might not have to, they could just as easily be trying to sell you on a… Read More Plate of Pancreas, sir?
Buenos Aires – I keep wanting to visit the Municipal Museum, but somehow or other it always seems to be closed when I go that direction. Yesterday I was informed that it would be closed until mid-March. For whatever reason, its cafeteria is open, but nothing on the menu looked interesting. Then again, museum cafeterias… Read More Some things are just wrong…
Buenos Aires – Family owned and operated, in business since 1973, now with 12 branches around the city, but I headed to the original shop, because it was near to where I ended up my walk yesterday. The first Chungo, which literally means “a real bitch” or “a nasty piece of work” or anything else… Read More Ice Cream is a Real B*tch
Buenos Aires – One more stop on The Great Empanada Tour! On the recommendation of a couple of folk, I headed out to Belgrano to try some Bolivian empanadas. Actually I headed out to go somewhere else entirely, but it was closed for lunch, and then I remembered this recommendation. It wasn’t exactly a recommendation… Read More Bolivian Spice Fix
Buenos Aires – Spittin’ images, as they say. Walter Matthau was easy to pick out, right out of Grumpy Old Men. The other one, I keep wracking my brain and going between Buddy Hackett, a plumped up Phil Silvers, a plumped up Milton Berle, or Jonathan Winters if he looked more like the other three.… Read More Let Them Eat Lomo!
Buenos Aires – Happy and productive, and Felix wouldn’t want it any other way. This is Felix of La Olla de Felix, Juncal 1693, in Barrio Norte, a 30-some seat French bistro that he has been running for just over a decade. Rumor has it he was the former lauded chef of the Ritz hotel… Read More Fèlix, Félicité, Feliz
“In the year 301 our village was the first to adopt Christianity. Today, here at El Manto [the cloak], we breathe the mysticism and the secrets of those first flavors, with dishes secretly passed from generation to generation. Our authentic Armenian recipes are changed each season by the hard work of Armenian women. Our cuisine… Read More Holy Food!
Buenos Aires – I set out yesterday, late morning, with three objectives in mind. The first, to explore the wholesale cooking supplies neighborhood along the southern end of Av. Jujuy; the second, to continue my Paint By Numbers project with a wander down one of two streets that fit my theme in that area; and… Read More Paint By Numbers 3