Restaurant Name: TopolobampoLocation: 445 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60654Kind of Food: Mexican GourmetPrice Range: $25 - $90 per person (tasting menu anyone? I know I was tempted....)What I ordered: Trio Trio Trio (cebiche fronterizo, cebiche yucateco, seaside cocktail), Eggplant enchiladas, Classic Margarita.Comments: I was REALLY tempted by the tasting menus. They sounded incredible. The price for one of them (around $90) was offputting, but the thing that really drove me away from them was the amount of pork in the dishes. Really,...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Restaurant Name: The PalmLocation: 837 Second Ave, New York, NY 10017Kind of Food: SteakhousePrice Range: $30-$50 per personWhat I ordered: Signature crab cakes. Ceasar SaladComments: First of all, let me clarify that I´m a bit of a certified idiot. I went to a steakhouse and ordered the crab cakes, which were honestly not that great. There is very little food that I´ve encountered that I´ve had trouble actually eating and those crab cakes were definitely one of them unfortunately. Everyone told me to get the Chicken Parmesan (which would have...
Categories: foodie, NYC, Restaurant Review
Restaurant Name: PsariLocation: Suiza N34-41 y República de El Salvador (www.psariquito.com)Kind of Food: Mediterranean FusionPrice Range: $15-$25 per personWhat I ordered: Grilled octopus. Lady Psaritini.Comments: Best. Grilled. Octopus. EVER. I´m usually really picky about Octopus and tend not to order it because it is unusually chewy. I think that if not well prepared, it is easier to chew on an eraser than a piece of octopus. But Psari´s octopus is grilled to perfection. Crunchy on the outside, soft and tender on the inside. The grilled octopus...
Categories: foodie, Quito, Restaurant Review
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The sky is cloudy this morning - an endless gray cotton that stretches out beyond what I can see. At 6:30 am, the lights in the houses sprawling across the valley have still not died out. The fog has begun to rise above the mountains, leaving thick drops of dew stuck onto the green foliage in its wake. "Winter" here at the equator (or technically slightly north of it) has begun. I definitely prefer it to the ungodly heat and the Equatorial sun beating down on you that we were getting but two days ago. Part of me believes that the cloudy sky is...
Saturday, November 5, 2011
I came home today after a very long day (car decided to stop working, had to do some errands about town) to find a dead cat in my driveway. I was upset by this. My parents say it was probably the dogs that killed it because it trespassed into their territory. I mean, it wasn´t bleeding or anything. Just seems the dogs...I don´t know.Anyhow, I had to dispose of the carcass. I felt a mix of grossness and sadness. I´m a cat person and I can´t imagine my own cat, Luna, ending up like that. Just really upsetting all around. Anyhoo, my mother told me...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
I´m burned. I´m just seriously tired. I´m starting to think that taking that extra week at work was a bad idea, but I need the money, so I´m weathering the storm. Except I´m not really. I don´t think. I´m at that point where I just don´t care anymore. And maybe that´s not a point I should be at. Part of me is just really frustrated that the company waster two and a half days of my time last week that could have been spent otherwise. The other part of me is just tired of having to come home to no personal time and work on another project. Right...
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