Restaurant reviews – the opinions expressed are solely my own. Often, though it will appear that they’re based on a single visit, they’re based on more than one. And I’m willing to hear from folks who disagree – I do know that restaurants, including my own, have their off days.
Some thirteen years ago I first wrote in detail about the iconic Argentine dish, the Revuelto Gramajo. Over the years, I’ve continued to try various versions of the dish, and also, on occasion, dip into its history. And, over time, more details have made their way to the internet, from more and more reliable sources. There’s… Read More A Scrambled Revisit
“Back in the day”, i.e., early on in this blog, which has now gone on for nearly two decades, I used to do a daily, or at least every couple of day, writeup of what I’d been up to. Mostly food and wine, but a lot of other stuff – after all Buenos Aires was new… Read More Sennight Glance #1
Five days back in NYC for a whirlwind visit with friends. Almost none of my old friends till live in the city, having moved to either close or distant places, ranging from Yonkers to Sicily. I think just over half of the people I saw this week made the effort to come into town to… Read More Barely Grazing New York City
I have just spent five days in Panama City, my first ever visit there. Now, most people who put the metropolis (is it a metropolis?) on their bucket list do so because of that canal thingy. The canal was never on my list. Come to think of it, I don’t know that I really have… Read More Panama says, “Bite Me!”
Welcome to the Eleventy-first of these entries! Since first encountering the idea in Tolkein, I’ve always liked the idea of an eleventy-one or eleventy-first… anything. I actually have, in the works, a local restaurant guidebook destined to have eleventy-one entries. Just because. Today, we have a very mixed bag of spots. I wanted to slip… Read More Bite Marks #111
After our brief venture for Tex-Mex tacos last month at Órale Juanito Palermo my mind turned towards more classic Mexican street tacos, one of the best street foods on the planet. From just a few years ago basically all of the Mexican restaurants here in town serving up crunchy corn tortilla style tacos, and most… Read More “Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.”
We pick up where we left off after the first ten cannoli offerings. Another ten, and probably at least another ten to go after that. It’s a slow, tubular process, but someone’s got to do it. In general, I was less enamored of the cannoli in this round, but I guess that’s to be expected since I… Read More The Great Cannolo Reconnaissance, Round 2
I was all prepared for a weeklong gastronomic extravaganza as Henry and I winged our way off to Mendoza, a short 600 and change mile flight to the west. I’d worked on lining up reservations at some of the top restaurants in the city, visits to some more offbeat wineries, and just generally having a… Read More A Mendozan Short Shrift