There are a lot of good chef bio flicks. Two of the most highly acclaimed by the critics will be featured at this year’s Food in Film Festival in San Miguel de Allende. One is “Ellen Brennan: Commanding The Table”. The other is a personal favorite of mine, “Love,...
Back in December 2021, I said to Don Day’s Wife, “A pizza parlor with no pasta and no delivery. Not a snowball’s chance in hell it’ll survive. I give it one year, absolute max!” The place I was talking about was called Bennu. They recently celebrated their third...
It was my wine discovery of the year in 2024. Yes, the 3 for 2 sales at Soriana and La Comer in December are great bargains but this is a sale at my favorite Mexican wine shop with many of my favorite wines. You buy six and you get 150 pesos off the price (of each and...
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him pick up an empty plate from a table without saying the words. “Did you like it?” He, of course, almost always, gets a positive response and, almost always, he beams. The guy I’m talking about is Gerardo. A guy we call Gerry. Not...
So there I was, walking down Hernandez Macias, on my way to Kenny’s for some Buffalo wings and one of his fully-loaded caesars and in the distance I see a sheep. Could it be, I thought, could it really be? I’ve been lamenting a lot lately, desperately missing El Pato,...
Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime. Show a man where to buy fish and he won’t have to spend the rest of his life in a rowboat drinking beer. I rarely eat tilapia. It’s not that I don’t like the...
So there we were in the Mexican state of Guerrero, perhaps the world capital of pozole, and I had two mysteries to solve. First, how did Thursday become the traditional day to enjoy pozole? Second, where in Zihuatanejo would I find the best? I may have solved the...
I thought I was back on Queen Street in Toronto last night. It wasn’t just that we were the only people over the age of 40. There was a buzz, a vibe, an energy, an atmosphere that you don’t see in San Miguel restaurants unless you go out at close to midnight which we...
It’s difficult for me to remember anything my father and I had in common during my early teen years. Except perhaps one thing that united us. We both disliked almost all foods that came in any shade of green. Yet, on almost every day of my adolescence, my mother...
It was Susan Knight York who alerted me and there’s no one who knows more about where to find the best restaurant values in San Miguel de Allende than Susan York. Perhaps I shouldn’t say restaurant though because many of the town’s best bargains aren’t found in bricks...
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