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.
It’s been since mid-pandemic that I haven’t written a Where to Eat recommendation piece. There have been too many mediocre or bad spots recently, and writing about them was depressing me, so I’m just not going to this time around. There were half a dozen forgettable spots, I’ve added them to my maps, without any more… Read More Where to Eat #13
We’ve talked about this before. There’s classic, homestyle kind of Peruvian cooking, and there’s the newer, Japanese fusion style Nikkei cooking. And there are places that clearly fall in one camp or the other, and some that aren’t so easily defined. And, of course, there are some scattered “other” types, like the occasional find of… Read More Peruvian Gamut in Three
Sushi, Tempura, Dumplings. These are a few of my favorite things. Okay, there’s only one tempura item in this Bite Marks-ish, or Chop Suey-ish roundup, but it works for the title, so I’m going with it. Let’s start along Pasaje Echevarria. Those of us who spend a lot of time in Chinatown know that there have… Read More STDs
I have been a bit less active with planning Roving Ravenous Horde activities. Personal/family stuff that just left me a bit lacking in enthusiasm for social stuff, though I’m moving through it. Still, over the last month we actually made it out twice, which is our usual schedule – I just didn’t put as much effort into… Read More Twice Again, The Horde
It’s pizza. Is there such thing as bad pizza? Yes. But mostly, no. Because, pizza. We start off at Brucia, Ramón Freire 1302 in Colegiales, a fairly new opening, where, I’d assert, we had a couple of the best pizzas we’ve had in quite some time in Buenos Aires. It’s a bit of a hike for… Read More Pizza Foursome
Originally, I was going to make this an all suburban Peruvian post, and set out to visit a few restaurants in the afueras of the city. And, I made it to two, one solo, one with my most common lunching companion (other than Henry). But then we ended up at a couple in Palermo, and rather… Read More Peru Times Four
We were off! It’s been a bit since we got away for a few days to just relax together. It was also a bit of a mistake, in that I had a senior moment, having booked a private party for tomorrow, and we planned our trip around it, but I’d somehow missed rescheduling it for… Read More The Other Side of the Mountain
“Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.” — Jan Morris Just an assortment, a octet, if you will, of lunches over the last couple of months, and dishes… Read More The Randomness of Lunch