I was talking to Ali Sarraf, the owner of a new restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, about the name he chose for his pride and joy. I told him I was never sure if his chosen word was a positive or a negative. I remember when it was a popular nickname but I was never...
“That’s the best steak made from Mexican beef I’ve ever had in this town.” Don Day’s Wife used the “b” word the other night. Not the “better” word, the “best” word. Not the comparative, the superlative. She used it twice in fact. And “best” is a word that does...
Don Day’s wife said that. She was talking about a hot Italian-style pork sausage. And Don Day’s Wife is an acclaimed Italian sausage maker. But this wasn’t her pork sausage. This was another woman’s pork sausage. And, unlike Don Day’s Wife’s sausage, this sausage is...
If you skip the social aspects, there are two reasons why I go out to a restaurant. To eat and to drink. And, to me, the second is almost as important as the first. For, on most occasions, as the 19th Century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin said, a meal without wine...
San Miguel? But exactly where you’re probably saying? Well it’s actually very, very convenient, no matter where you live in town. This shop is in your own living room. Or your kitchen. Or your patio. Or perhaps even your bedroom. It’s anywhere you can access the...
There used to be only one Thai restaurant in San Miguel de Allende. Now there are two. Well sort of. You see Orchidea Thai has opened a second location. Up on the hill. Up on Salida Real a Queretaro. Up where I live. A location that I can walk to. With the slightly...
We were about four hours outside of Paris, with only one day left on our trip to France, when Don Day’s Wife said to me, “So how do you want to spend it?” “Let’s drive into the city”, I replied. “I’ve been reading on the Internet (a new invention at the time) about La...
Last night, the Fifth Annual SMART Awards dinner was held. It’s the evening when we recognize the town’s very best restaurants as voted on by the readers of Don Day in SMA. 518 people voted. Each voter was allowed to choose up to three restaurants. In a town of almost...
Have you ever noticed that people don’t eat brunch, they do brunch. Well I don’t. Well not very often. On Saturdays, I’m usually too busy shopping for food. On Sundays, I’m usually too busy doing nothing (currently that means winding my way down the list of the top...
“You can’t eat ambience.” My dad said that. He probably wasn’t the first to say it. But he may have been the person who said it the most. “What’s wrong with chrome and formica?”, he’d say. “You think food tastes any better when it’s served on fancy-dan tablecloths and...
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