Gauchos Steak House (Panama)

Back towards the beginning of the year, CT and I learned that CT’s Sister’s Sister-in-Law would be getting married in Panama at the end of July. Why Panama? The Bride’s parents live down there now full-time. We learned that Panama has a huge ex-pat population mostly because it is so cheap and the U.S. Dollar is the functional currency down there. Since CT’s whole family is quite close with her brother-in-law’s family, we were all invited to the wedding. Since neither of us had been to Panama before, we decided to spend an extra couple days down there to explore [...]

Jackson Heights Walking Feast

My dear friend StB has had an exciting year.  Long time readers may recognize her as my former partner-in-eating-crime; we ate many many meals together (as that link will show you), but then she did something horrible and moved to Ohio.  But this year, she moved back!  She got engaged!  She turned 30!  And when I finally had a minute to breathe during this intense, scary, terrible, awesome, amazing summer, we took a jaunt around Jackson Heights for food – cheap.  We started off at Mira Cali II for pandebono…This was $1.  We split one because we knew how much [...]

Mi Tio

I actually wrote about Mi Tio a while ago (over 4 years ago now), but recently returned to see if it was still worth all the fond memories I have of this place.  As I mention in that post, I’ve been going to this place since my father was still alive.  It used to be a very small, hole-in-the-wall, family oriented joint; it doesn’t seem to have changed much from that save the ‘hole-in-the-wall’ description, as it’s expanded quite a bit in the past 10+ years and looks almost fancy.  Almost.  In any case, the prices have changed only slightly…  [...]

Argentina: Day 6: Final Dinner in Buenos Aires, Rodizio

Still seeking our all-you-can-eat restaurant, upon our return to Buenos Aires (and the same hotel), our concierge directed us to Rodizio, of which I looked up the meaning once back in the States and discovered that Rodizio is the style of cuisine (where the Brazilian restaurants keep bringing you more and more meat), not churrascaria.  Oops! This is going to be a picture-intensive post, so bear with me.  Also, keep in mind while looking at these pictures, this entire meal cost us $27 USD. Bread with tangy butter spread on the table As soon as we sat down, they served [...]

Argentina: Day 5: Parilla El Quincho Del Tio Querido

For our very last dinner in Iguazu Falls, we wanted churrascaria.  Brazilian, as we know it back here in NYC, where they come around and keep feeding you meat and don’t stop… Yum.  (Yes, we decided one night off meat was enough.)  Though we were clearly in Argentina, we figured since we were at the border of Argentina & Brazil, we should be able to find a really authentic one… Unfortunately, through the language barrier arose a miscommunication or misunderstanding, and we were sent here.  A happy mistake… this was no churrascaria as we know it in NYC- where the [...]

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