It’s been awhile since I’ve had a solid “you should check these places out” group of restaurants. There always seems to be one or two that just don’t make the grade, and past reader feedback is that you guys want to know about those too, in order to avoid them, or, sometimes, argue with me.… Read More Bite Marks #109
Those of you who’ve been with me awhile may well remember my explorations of the four famed pastas of Rome, and their family tree connections. A quick reference back – gricia, cacio e pepe, carbonara, amatriciana. In form the base is cheese and pepper, cacio e pepe. Add guanciale and you have gricia (albeit historically, it started here,… Read More The Breadcrumbs of Sicily
A quartet of Italians today, one of which I’ve reviewed before, and was worth a revisit and more sampling! We’ll start with two in Parque Patricios, both close on the park itself. This is actually turning out to be an interesting neighborhood for food, especially Italian, as the two spots today are excellent, and in… Read More Four Italian Bites
Janus was the Roman god of doors, gates, passages, beginnings, transitions, and time. But also, the middle ground between concrete and abstract dualities such as life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace, and barbarism/civilization. When I read about the concept behind Casa Pasto, Nicaragua 4557, Palermo (to one side of Plaza Armenia), my first thought was a sort… Read More The Janus Parrilla
We start with the cheese, the taleggio, a washed rind cow’s milk cheese from Lombardia, the province around Milan and Bergamo. Named for the Val Taleggio, or Taleggio Valley, this is one of the region’s most popular and best known cheeses. A personal favorite, and it makes for a great fonduta, a creamy cheese sauce, as in today’s… Read More A Tale of Taleggio
From cheap to dear, from casual to fancy, we’ve got a little of everything this time around in Bite Marks! Arredondo, Virrey Arredondo 2562, Colegiales – I’ve heard great things about the burgers here (and a second location in the northern ‘burbs). I went with their Vertiz burger, a double cheddar cheeseburger with bacon, grilled onions,… Read More Bite Marks #108
It’s been awhile on this project, and it’s become clear it will happen as it happens. Probably, as in past years, in spurts. Today, we’re on to Equatorial Guinea, a western African country of 1.5 million people that is notable as being the only Spanish speaking country in Africa, having formerly been a Spanish colony, Spanish… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #55 – Equatorial Guinea
It was a short four days in Montevideo, but I packed a lot of eating in. There wasn’t a lot else to do as it poured rain and howled wind most of the time. Luckily, I don’t mind checking out restaurants, you know? I already covered a couple of new chivito uruguayos in a post a… Read More Montage Montevideo