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In the Eye of the Beholder

I’ve never taken an art class in my life. Okay, not totally true, I’m sure we had some sort of art classes in kindergarten and first grade, but I mean a real art class. I signed up once for a drawing class at the local Y when I was in college – I turned in… Read More In the Eye of the Beholder

2014.Jun.11 Wednesday2018.Jan.24 Wednesday Dan Perlman2 Comments

Reborn in a French Bistro

What do you do when you’re an award winning chef… no really award winning, pretty much all the accolades available to a chef… who has run the kitchens in some of the best hotel restaurants in the country, been the director of one of the country’s best cooking schools, been part of various major food… Read More Reborn in a French Bistro

2014.Jun.10 Tuesday2017.Jul.22 Saturday Dan Perlman2 Comments

Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #2

Ding, Ding, Ding! It’s on to Round Two of the great TMCIC challenge! (Somebody please come up with a better name for this thing.) For those who missed it all last time, the gist of it all is that a friend of mine, Kevin Hopp, and I, take on a sort of “invention test” with… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #2

2014.Jun.09 Monday2015.Apr.16 Thursday Dan Perlman5 Comments

Something About Maria

There’s always something new on the restaurant scene here in BA. In my neighborhood, Recoleta, things seem to change less often than in some of the more trendy areas, but even so, I can probably count on something new every month or so. Just recently it was Camping, the hot new beer “bar” and casual… Read More Something About Maria

2014.Jun.07 Saturday2017.May.08 Monday Dan PerlmanLeave a comment

Tweaking, not Twerking, the Dinners

While twerking was the topic of conversation on two of the nights this last week (was there something in the news that I missed?), tweaking was the way we went. All of this last week’s menu consisted of plates that I’ve prepared before, and my focus was adjusting them, replating them, making shifts here and… Read More Tweaking, not Twerking, the Dinners

2014.Jun.02 Monday2016.May.11 Wednesday Dan Perlman6 Comments

Time For Another Round of Mini-Reviews

Just what it says in the title… Henry and I headed out one night to a dance performance at a small cultural center in Chacarita, and when it finished up we were famished. Starting out tentatively walking a few blocks to Albamonte for some pizza, we stumbled across El Pollo Rico, Olleros 4172 and thought… Read More Time For Another Round of Mini-Reviews

2014.May.30 Friday2024.Sep.30 Monday Dan Perlman2 Comments

Hot Chix!

Made ya look. That is one fine looking bird… and check out those gams! Just a reminder, ingredients don’t grow in styrofoam, plastic wrapped packages. Yet. On to last week’s dinners… Our shiitake, oyster mushroom and red onion cheesecake, button mushroom bergamot puree, fried portobellos, gran pampeano cheese crisp with rosemary, green onions, shiitake dust.… Read More Hot Chix!

2014.May.28 Wednesday2016.May.11 Wednesday Dan PerlmanLeave a comment

Crowdsourced Italian

Casting about to try a new Italian restaurant on Sunday, I decided to leave it up to local palates. According to GuiaOleo, our local version of an online Zagat’s guide, the best (well, actually second best, as the first best wasn’t open on Sundays) Italian restaurant in town is A mi Manera, Baigorria 3237 in… Read More Crowdsourced Italian

2014.May.24 Saturday2016.Jun.05 Sunday Dan PerlmanLeave a comment

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