Tam Tam d’Afrique

There are times that a new place opens and the right combination of food and service is mixed in the right amount from the start. But this is not one of those times, unfortunately. Written by Agustin, assistant organizer: Tam Tam’s d’Afrique is a new place...
Anancy

Anancy

Not in the biggest blogging mood lately so sorry for the delay of our latest outing. Oh and we did go to 2 other places, I was not in attendance and I never got a blog from the ones present…so the group did go to the Oyster Shack and Braseiro….if you were...
May 5th

May 5th

Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next...
2nd year Anniversary Party

2nd year Anniversary Party

Last Saturday, March 14th was the Cheap Ethnic Eatz dinner groups 2nd anniversary. And boy was it ever a party! The party was held at a previously visited restaurant called L’Ambroisie. I won’t go into specific the details of the actual place in this blog,...

Resto El Chalateco – Best Salvadoran Yet!

Last Saturday I co-organized a baby shower for a friend. It was just a simple dinner out with friends as the mother to be is rather unconventional when it comes to such celebrations. We were six…the parents to be, 2 girls and 2 guys. We had lots of last minute...

Pass the ancient Irish butter please

Ok now here is a useless little interesting fact I read and researched. Some of the commonest archaeological finds in Ireland are barrels of ancient butter, buried in the peat bogs: they flavored butter heavily with garlic, knuckled it into a wooden firkin, and buried...