Archive for the ‘Restaurants’ Category
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Address: 308-310 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
Phone: 02 9332 3373
Style: Restaurant
Cuisine: Other European
Hours: Dinner, Tues-Sat
Price Guide: $160 for two, including wine,
Features: Licensed
Chefs: Alejandro Saraceni
Owners: Marcelo Berezowski and Santiago Correa
'It's all about the meat," says the woman who greets me. Let's see. I'm either in a porn movie or an Argentine ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
DURING eight weeks of eating in the hip Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the best meal I have is one that tourist dollars can't buy. It's a home-cooked feast with friends.
Adela Belinky, the talented mother of my friend Ines, shops for a week to gather the ingredients for our Sunday lunch ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Located in the heart of SoHo, "La Pampa" opened in 1999 is the first Argentinian Steak House in Hong Kong. The name La Pampa derived from Pampas (in Spanish) are the vast lowland plains of Argentina where since the middle of 19th century the breeding of high-grade sheep and cattle ...
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Usually, restaurants vie for attention in Buenos Aires’s Palermo Viejo neighborhood. Tegui, which the star chef Germán Martitegui opened in January 2009, tries a different approach. With its graffiti-covered facade and tiny lettering on an ugly security door, it’s easy to miss. But that would be a shame, given what ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Want to discover the heart of Buenos Aires? Eat like a local. There's good food everywhere.
Writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges praised his birth city in essays and poems. Since 2010 is the bicentennial of the city, it seems fitting to remember "The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires." The last ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
It’s all about respect, said Reina Morris, Buenos Aires Café owner and chef.
“I respect the food … the care I put into the food. I like things to be done correctly,” she said.
Every day, Morris roasts chicken for empanadas, makes fresh dough for four different types of gnocchi and hand ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Toro Dorado
Grilled, Argentinian
Spuistraat 3D, 1012 SP, Amsterdam
top quality Argentinean restaurant, Toro Dorado is one of the most exclusive grill spots in Amsterdam, located in the centre of city and just a few minutes walking distance from the Central Railway Station. Only the best Aberdeen Angus Beef is served, selected from ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
IT was over a bowl of delicious, spicy-sweet peanut soup with pesto made from huacatay, or Andean black mint, that I realized the vegetarian diner was now perfectly welcome in Buenos Aires. As a vegetarian traveling in a country where beef takes center stage, I expected my meals to be ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Why (in Part) People Love Buenos Aires
I was there for two days, only — my first trip. While it was sort of obvious which parillas — essentially restaurants specializing in grilled meats — not to go to, it was more difficult to determine which ones were going to be worth ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
One of the privileges of a writer’s life—especially if he or she has no children, no pets and a spouse who loves to travel—is the ability to “up sticks,” as the British used to say, and move elsewhere. Longtime readers may recall reading about just such forays of mine—to Piedmont ...
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