For the last couple of years I’ve been hearing about another restaurant a puertas cerradas that focused on the classics of local cuisine – empanadas and steaks. Originally it was located somewhere near us in Recoleta, but it seemed vague and mysterious, and no one seemed to know a lot about it, just that it… Read More Una Experiencía of the Argentine
As usual, it’s time for that end of the month pick-me-up of sharing photos. I didn’t do it for last month because, simply, there were way too many of them – I have more than a thousand photos on disc from vacation and obviously didn’t use even a two digit percentage of them in my… Read More A Not Particularly August August
Wrapping up our four week look back at four weeks of vacation, inspirations from La Paz…. Given that most of what I ate tended to be casual, almost street food, I had to be, first, more selective, and second, more, let’s say, stretchy. Some of these are probably a reach from where they started, but… Read More And, the La Paz Inspirations
It’s been a bit over a month and I’m sufficiently ready to set forth once again and continue the quest along the 92 bus route for pizza perfection. At the beginning of July we left off just after entering barrio Flores, and this time picked up at Plaza Pueyrredón along Av. Rivadavia. With the luck… Read More 92 Bus, Stops 28 – 31
A foursome of mini-reviews playing through… One of the first nights after getting back from La Paz I needed a sushi fix. A new branch of Sensei Sushi just opened up nearby at Arenales 2019, in a spot that was a short-lived mistake of a coffee house (their specialty was the infamous kopi luwak coffee,… Read More Four Bites
Wrapping up our look back at Peru with inspirations from Lima, last weekend’s dinners brought a bit of heat to the table. We started off the evening with a cocktail of pisco, szechuan pepper infused sugar syrup, and fresh orange and lime juices. From there, we began with a dish you’ve seen before here… Our… Read More Lima, Revisited
Once upon a time there were five singing maidens living on a flowered island in the sea who lured mariners to their death on the rock. We know them (at least any of us who’ve studied classic literature) as the sirens, and one of them was named Partenope. Her main claim to fame was that… Read More Old City Pizzeria
Continuing with our little vacation remix cycle, this last weekend we hit the north of Peru with Trujillo and Calamarca taking center stage. There was less new here, given that I’ve been to that part of Peru several times now, and of course, Henry grew up there, so it’s ingrained into his soul. But it… Read More Trujillo, Remastered