May as well just continue with these, they’re piling up fast (it’s what happens when you have a very short window of time and a whole lot of reviews to get to). First up, into the Spanish restaurant enclave that surrounds the Congreso area. I thought I’d start with some history, El Imparcial, Hipolito Yrigoyen… Read More Four More Bites
Another round of mini-reviews as I work on the dining section for the next edition of the travel guide. It’s a little more intense this time and I’m not able to pack away what I normally might as I’m kind of hitting one place for lunch and one for dinner over a couple of week… Read More Another Three Bites
I’m starting to think that as our Casa S cookbook is coming together, and it really is coming together (in fact, while Henry is away in Peru the coming two weeks I’m taking a few days to do a short trip and then spending about ten days working on finishing it up), that I’m going… Read More Of Corn Cheesecake & Avocado Pie
We’re down to five contestants now after the last elimination. And away we go…. It’s kind of a cool start. Each of them has a tray with a cloche over it and head judge Chicote tells them that they’ve got a very, very special task for their trial by fire. They lift the cloches and… Read More Spain’s Top Chef – Episode 8
Just a quick look at this past weekend’s Abunda (“abounds”) food festival up in Vicente Lopez, just north of the city limits. Set along the Paseo de la Costa it was a lovely place for an outdoor food fest and attracted a whole lotta folk. I stayed for awhile, wandered around, checked out some of… Read More Gastronomy Festival Abounds
Coming up over the next few weeks there will probably be a bunch more mini-reviews. It’s time for the next round of the Fodor’s dining guide updates. New editor, slightly different setup, definitely less time to try to pack in what there is to review, especially because these days Casa S tends to be open… Read More Three Casual Bites
After yesterday’s post I needed a break all over again, but luckily, I had one planned for after the dinners. Being a holiday weekend and having had all the extra private parties, we’d decided to take a four-day break and have a Saturday through Tuesday off. Henry wanted to have a party for a group… Read More Day Trip to the Tigre
A series of private parties and a week of dinners, and most of it went quite well. But there was that last night of last week. One of the questions I often get asked is something like, “what do you do when a night doesn’t go well?” or “do you ever have nights where the… Read More Spiraling around the Dinner Table