Parilla
Another food post...
Today we walked around Mendoza, and signed up for a Bikes and Wine tour tomorrow. George met the guy who runs this, and sent us there. The logo is a person on a bike quaffing from stemware. (SMFD - without a helmet! we will wear helmets..)
But, the coin thing again.. We can take the city bus to the starting place for the tour for 1.40 pesos (about $.50 US) or the shuttle for 30 pesos each. But to take the bus you have to have enough coins for the round trip for two. And there ARE NO COINS almost. This is because when the price of metals like brass and nickle got high earlier this year, coins were worth much more melted down than their face value. So they all got melted, and sent to China and India. Now it´s this incredible game of stratagy between menchants and customers to get those precious few that are left in circulation.
Well anyway, while we were signing up, we asked the young man running the desk at Wine and Bikes where to go for parilla (pronounced pa.ree.jha), the special Argentine BBQ, brought to your table on a little habachi like thing to keep it warm. The full deal usually includes kid, pork, maybe chicken, and of course beef all portions - sweetbreads, kidney, blood sausage, chitlins, steak and ribs. He lit up and recommended Grill Jesus and Mary. I am not making this up. We headed off, expecting some little locals only hole-in-the-wall, only to arrive at this beautifull restaurant and elevated patio on the edge of the big park. Fortunately the grill fire was out and they were closing for the afternoon. I say fortuantely because we were hungry enough to eat there and it would have been the most expensive meal of the trip by a factor of 2.
We walked back toward our hotel and came across a small hole-in-the wall sidwalk cafe with hand lettered signs and great smells. We sat down for the next 2 hours and devoured a rack of beef short ribs, fried potatoes, grilled mixed vegetables and a really good bottle of Malbec all for about $30 US. CT was so smitten by the vegetables that she disappeared into the cocina to meet the chef. He was the vegetable cook who had apparently never had a fan visit before and was delighted. We all ended the afternoon very happy. SC
Today we walked around Mendoza, and signed up for a Bikes and Wine tour tomorrow. George met the guy who runs this, and sent us there. The logo is a person on a bike quaffing from stemware. (SMFD - without a helmet! we will wear helmets..)
But, the coin thing again.. We can take the city bus to the starting place for the tour for 1.40 pesos (about $.50 US) or the shuttle for 30 pesos each. But to take the bus you have to have enough coins for the round trip for two. And there ARE NO COINS almost. This is because when the price of metals like brass and nickle got high earlier this year, coins were worth much more melted down than their face value. So they all got melted, and sent to China and India. Now it´s this incredible game of stratagy between menchants and customers to get those precious few that are left in circulation.
Well anyway, while we were signing up, we asked the young man running the desk at Wine and Bikes where to go for parilla (pronounced pa.ree.jha), the special Argentine BBQ, brought to your table on a little habachi like thing to keep it warm. The full deal usually includes kid, pork, maybe chicken, and of course beef all portions - sweetbreads, kidney, blood sausage, chitlins, steak and ribs. He lit up and recommended Grill Jesus and Mary. I am not making this up. We headed off, expecting some little locals only hole-in-the-wall, only to arrive at this beautifull restaurant and elevated patio on the edge of the big park. Fortunately the grill fire was out and they were closing for the afternoon. I say fortuantely because we were hungry enough to eat there and it would have been the most expensive meal of the trip by a factor of 2.
We walked back toward our hotel and came across a small hole-in-the wall sidwalk cafe with hand lettered signs and great smells. We sat down for the next 2 hours and devoured a rack of beef short ribs, fried potatoes, grilled mixed vegetables and a really good bottle of Malbec all for about $30 US. CT was so smitten by the vegetables that she disappeared into the cocina to meet the chef. He was the vegetable cook who had apparently never had a fan visit before and was delighted. We all ended the afternoon very happy. SC
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