What's important in a restaurant?
Piping hot bread on the table moments after ordering was a great start. I have to ask myself if that was what inspired the etched glass logo.
As most of you know, I am more leaning on the side of variety than looking to compare pasta all day. I also miss many of the foods I was accustomed to eating when I lived in the former USA. But today, we were out and about shopping for clothes. I hate shopping for clothes. After several bad experiences but some successes, we were starving.
I can't tell you what neighborhood this is in but it's somewhere between Once and San Telmo.
I will want to find this place again, so I shot this picture to remind myself where it is. I use my blog as a "life bookmark" system as much as anything else. I send buyers to Steemit when they ask where we are going to meet to exchange Dash or Ethereum (and now maybe some Bitcoins if it stabilizes). This is where we meet.
I keep steemit links handy then text them out to people when making plans. This one will be helpful at some point - thus the street sign.
This place is billed as a pizza place. If I had read the green sign, I may have blown right past it - not a big fan of pasta. I have found very few pizza places here that compare to Chicago's style, but a few that are good anyway. Hey, it's a matter of opinion.
As far as pasta goes? I avoid fresh pasta. I am the kind of person who cooks a family-size spaghetti dinner and then puts it in the fridge for tomorrow without ever eating a bite. I prefer next day, unless it's the "salsa blanca" kind (white sauce). I love clam sauces on pasta when at the beach or near the sea.
Enough on my opinions of Pizza and Pasta in Buenos Aires. Just know that there are plenty that serve these two things, nearly one on every corner.
Naturally, I order anything but... Same for my son...
I got the boneless chicken thigh, covered in muchrooms and delicious sauce and surrounded by round french fries. This exceeded my expectations in every way.
And the waiter was kind enough to offer to bring the coffee to the table with the food. My first ten years here were hell trying to make that happen. I was also given a turn with the pepper shaker. As is the norm, only one exists in the entire establishment. They bring it and wait until you are done using it.
Another rarity found at this particular restaurante is an attempt at acoustic dampening. I am not even sure if I have seen an attempt at allowing conversation to take place in any restaurant during my nearly twenty years here. I have all but stopped eating out at prime time for this very reason. It's a shouting match with echo added in most establishments. The reason that I noticed the contours and foam baffles on the ceiling was because I could not hear the conversations of people at other tables. Normally you can't hear the person 16 inches from you due to the conversation at the next table. Proof positive, this is a first that I have seen here. in Argentina. Spiga did it though.
I give this one four stars out of five.
- fast service
- ability to converse
- heavenly bread
- available pepper
- coffee with the food (I am American- this is necessary)
- portions and quality excellent
