Asia Oriental Express. My Civil Opinion.

Asia Oriental Express. My Civil Opinion.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde Every morning I get an email from a Facebook site. It carries the not so catchy headline:  [CivilSMA1] Civil San Miguel de Allende, formerly Civil SMA...
Can fine cuisine be enjoyed in not so fine surroundings?

Can fine cuisine be enjoyed in not so fine surroundings?

Damn you covid! It was back in November. I’d discovered this new restaurant that looked right, that felt right, but it was indoors and we’d sworn we weren’t doing indoors until the numbers went down. Then, in January, the daily new case numbers in Mexico not only...
A delicious dinner, down deep in the rabbit hole.

A delicious dinner, down deep in the rabbit hole.

We’d been there before. Back in April 2020. Then again in December 2020. And now we’d made the difficult decision once more. We were heading back into hibernation. Back down the rabbit hole. It was a little different this time. More contagious. But less dangerous. But...
Not quite dim sum but quite the treat.

Not quite dim sum but quite the treat.

It’s a once a week, absolutely-every-week-that-we’re-there, tradition in Toronto. I’m talking about dim sum at lunch. Those wonderful little Chinese treats, steamed or fried, three or four to the serving, that date back to the 10th Century tea houses on the Silk Road...
A big shout out to the kitchen at Bulla Gastronómico.

A big shout out to the kitchen at Bulla Gastronómico.

I had to look up the word bulla. A noun, female, said the 2021 Word Reference Dictionary, best translated as ruckus, commotion, racket, uproar. Interesting. I wondered if I’d soon be raisin’ a ruckus about the new San Miguel restaurant with the unlikely name of Bulla...
Bowled over by what came in this bowl.

Bowled over by what came in this bowl.

Lima and I got off to a rocky start. My first time there was when the restaurant was in San Miguel’s Mercado Carmen. I asked the very charming server to bring me the dish that the chef was most proud of. The chef’s recommendation was Linguine Huancaina with Cortes de...