The Roving Ravenous Horde hit its one year anniversary, and it seemed as good as any time to pick a spot that focused on local cuisine, much as we did for the very first outing, last August. Instead of milanesas, we went straight for the grill. A couple of weeks ago, after one of my Sunday Outings… Read More Like an Asado Swimming Up-a-Parrilla
Menu #34 August 9-11 – 2018 – 9-11 de Agosto Standout Plates / Platos Destacados Ceviche – queenfish cut in cubes and marinated for 30 minutes with red onions, black tomatoes, pickled orange rind, limo chilies, chives, and basil, emulsification of lime and orange juices, yellow chili, olive oil, salt; fried wontons dusted with… Read More Of Queenfish & Cavatelli
I don’t spend much time in Italian restaurants in Buenos Aires, despite their ubiquity. Mostly it’s that Italian cooking is what I first trained professionally in, and what I still cook for myself more than anything else. It’s also what most of the cooking classes I teach are based around. So I usually want… Read More Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
A short little special Bite Marks focusing on what I’m going to call the orphan latin american cuisines in Buenos Aires. For those who live here, or visit regularly, you know that the city is awash with Peruvian restaurants, both traditional and nikkei. And at least within certain zones of the city, there are a good number of… Read More Bite Marks #63
? An all sushi special. And (nearly) an all sushi special at places that don’t subscribe to this bizarre porteño belief that anything is made better by the addition of cheese. Enough already with batons and slabs and dabs of low quality cream cheese in maki rolls, and even on occasion on pieces of nigiri. Worse, those that… Read More Sushi. Almost “sin filadelfia”.
From Menu #33 August 2-4 – 2018 – 2-4 de Agosto Oh no he didn’t… I can hear it now. He didn’t mix squid and dark chocolate…. No, I didn’t, even though I imagine there must be some sort of calamari mole that would involve both – somewhere in Mexico. But no, just two plates… Read More Squid & Dark Chocolate
One of the things I get asked about, probably more than anything, is how I come up with new dishes, given that we change our menu every week, and it does seem like I go out to eat a fair amount. And my answer is always something to the effect of, “from everywhere and everything… Read More In Search of the Golden Carrot
I’d forgotten how much more expensive things are here than back home. I mean, I know that Uruguay has always been pricier than in Argentina on past visits, but the difference seems pretty stark right now. From past experience, I know that Montevideo tends to be pretty closed up on Sundays. In nice weather… Read More Four Days of Eats in Montevideo II