For almost ten years, they’d been, clearly, at the top of my list. The place where I bought more bottles than anywhere else in Mexico. My number one source for almost all of our everyday wines. I’m talking about the largest wine buyer in the world, the chain known as...
My wife’s parents called it motor trailer. My parents called it dead secretary (Perry Mason was the most watched show in those days). I didn’t care what they called it. Mortadella was my favorite sandwich meat. I started to really love it long ago and far...
“How did we forget about this place for so many years? Why did we take so long to come back.” Those were the very last words I published about a San Miguel restaurant called Chamonix back on May 6, 2018. It had been eleven years between visits when I wrote it. It took...
I was humming a tune from an old Greek movie as I sauntered into Centro, changing the “but never” lyrics to the more apropos, “…but only on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday…”. I was meeting up with my buddy Andy, my eat-just-about-anything buddy Andy. On separate...
It was the 10th SMART Awards Gala Dinner, the time when we honor and toast the San Miguel de Allende restaurants that subscribers to Don Day in SMA vote as their favorites. The routine is pretty much the same. The winner of the previous year’s top award welcomes...
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