Time for some mo’ meat!   Jagüel, Gorriti 5870, Palermo [w3w: strides.improves.bats] – There are terms that mean something, and not something else. Like most of them. [Closed, didn’t even last a year] When someone tells you that a restaurant is “self-service”, that generally means that the food is all laid out, somewhat banquet style, and you go… Read More The Steak Scrolls II

I mentioned a couple of times recently, that in getting down to having been to pretty much all of the “known” Korean restaurants in the two Koreatowns, I was on the hunt for the more difficult to find spots. The casas de comida, hidden away behind facades that don’t reveal their existence, or in locations you… Read More Hidden K-Town

I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently about the new trend to open bars that are serving up, more or less, Asian street food or Asian bar food. And the trend just keeps growing. The latest entry into the fray is The Night Market, Gorriti 5612, Palermo [w3w: opposite.glades.madness], which just opened a couple of weeks ago.… Read More Two Takes on Asian Night Life

Okay, I was warned off of this one. A local friend had given it a try and sent me a tweet telling me to stay away. He saw it was on my “to try” map, and had gone himself, and said that while they had a beautiful terrace (wait, a terrace, in this location? So,… Read More Junghwa yori… Korea meets China

A much better Bite Marks than some of the recent ones have been…. Let’s start simple. Pizza.   This one was not on my radar. I was just in the mood for ordering a pizza, staying in, finishing off a bottle of wine, playing some Everquest, and relaxing. And they had bacon and pickled pepper pizza –… Read More Bite Marks #72

Enough with the downer reviews, no? More and more we’re starting to see Chinese restaurants here that are offering up “real” Chinese food rather than the ubiquitous dumbed down for local palate style that we see not just here, but in much of the west. Places like Caracol de Amor and Old Beijing that have menus… Read More Blown in from the Northwest

Not exactly what comes to mind when one says “bar & grill”, but I’m going sushi bar and Korean bbq here…. Faded Elegance   Back many, many moons ago, when I was writing for Time Out Buenos Aires, my editor Matt suggested we go check out a place he’d been hearing about that was a hotspot… Read More Bar & Grill

Let’s just say that this post is for those of you who like takedowns. See, my New Year’s Resolutions never make it very far. Okay, for the last couple of years, people have been carrying on about the amazing small plate Asian-influenced, particularly Indian-influenced, food at Gran Dabbang, Raúl Scalabrini Ortíz 1543, Palermo [w3w: swam.bouncing.panels]. The place… Read More To the Contrary…