…new sushi delivery spot. A chef friend of mine here told me about two years ago that the default position of restaurateurs here has become, “if your restaurant is failing, change your menu to sushi delivery, even if you don’t know anything about it.” And, sometimes it seems that that’s become true. Given the limited… Read More Yet Another…
Somewhere in there last weekend’s dinners just didn’t get written up. I know they don’t write themselves, but there I was busy posting round-ups of last momth’s photos and didn’t even realize I hadn’t posted some of those that I should have. So, a trifle tardy, but a quick glimpse at what was served up… Read More A Range of Spice
It’s time for our monthly roundup of unused, disused, abused, and amused photos from the last 30 day lunar cycle. Not so many this time…. Art? Graffiti? Left the car parked too long in one spot? Abandonment issues? We had some last cold days that showed up in September and a baking dish full of… Read More Try to Remember the kind of September….
Although no new suggestions have come in so far, I’m moving swiftly along in The Great Sandwich Hunt in following up on the online recommendations from various local websites. And, there are some interesting suggestions out there! It’s the Canada – Uruguay connection that I don’t get. I’m a big fan, as you know, of… Read More The Great Sandwich Hunt 6
Five years ago, back in our themed dinner days, we headed off to Middle Earth to celebrate Hobbit Day 2007, the 70th anniversary of the publication of the book. You can read all about it here. Although we’ve dropped the themed approach for the majority of our dinners, sometimes there’s still an inspiration from one… Read More Returning to the Shire, 5 Years On
The city of Buenos Aires is peppered with small little unofficial barrios. They’re not really full barrios with any sort of recognition, they tend to be small, sort of self contained neighborhoods, often it seems having grown up around a central plaza of one sort or another. Some of them eventually become officially recognized –… Read More River Living
Earlier this year I stopped in and gave a cursory review to DF Restaurante Mexicano in Puerto Madero. I wasn’t overly enamored of it, so it was with trepidation that we approached the new branch of it which has opened up a mere two blocks from our home. Given the dearth of any sort of… Read More Relatively, Better
It was a strange weekend for us – after last weekend’s three days packed with folk from ten different countries, it seemed the winter doldrums were over. But, just three folk reserved for Thursday, none for Friday, and four for Saturday. We ended up canceling the first two, one of those folk was able to… Read More Chocolate Day