Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Fantastic Food

I was looking at my last post, and realised I forgot to mention the glass of Fmaous Grouse on the rocks they gave us on the glacier, using ice directly from the glacier of course.... Kinda cool to be sipping a drink on the glacier

The food here in Argetina is amazing, empinadas (meat filled pastries) and dolche leche (a very yummy milk and carmel like spread for bread, toast etc) have pretty much become staples in our daily diet. I was actually disappointed when we got butter and not dolche leche with the meal on the plane yeterday...
The pizza and pasta is excellent and the meat plates are huge. When we ordered the lamb the other night, the waiter suggested we´d be better splitting the one portion, and boy was he right, it was huge ! and arrived on it´s own little BBQ, so fitting two on the table would have been hilarious (As neither of us our really steak eaters, but we have been told we have to try it before we leave)

When you order items like meat, sides are not included you just get the meat. Pasta and the sauce come seperately as well, and the sauce is an extra charge (good thing we figured that out before ordering some...hee hee)
Ham and cheese comes with everything, esp items covered with cheese, there is usually a layer of ham underneath the cheese.

Trying to figure out what we are actually ordering is getting easier, as we are recognizing more spansih words, but sometimes it can be funny trying to figure out what we actually ordering.

We have tried a few wines, I´ve found a couple of whites that are really good (I may be drinking wine again by the time I get back....) and Domi has had some good reds as well.

The pastries and chocolates are also very yummy ! I am not really sure how Argentinias are not huge with all this amazing food

We are back for a brief overnight in BA, and realised when we arrived we had not seen a McDonalds or Burger King the whole time we were in Patagonia, it was kinda nice. McDonals has the McCafe here, which I have seen before but not also including it as internet cafe. It´s an interesting concept, in place where not everyone will have their own computers....

1 comment:

  1. Ali, try some Malbec wine. It's an Argentine specialty. Yes, it's red, and damn tasty.

    Did you connect with Elba in Buenos Aires?

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