Monday 06
October 2003
A
good Restaurant
I
feel really sorry for poor Henry David Thorough. He
was so completely satisfied at that stupid Walden
Pond in Connecticut; he would have thought he died
and went to Heaven if he ever would have had a
chance to live here. I just finished a GREAT BLT
sandwich while sitting out on my balcony. I counted
6 different butterflies visiting our flowers.
Bacon
here is better than nearly all I ever had in the US.
It is very lean and flavorful. Actually, all of the
pork products here are excellent. The beef is not
I
am writing today about a really good Restaurant we
recently discovered. One of the very few negatives
of living here is the difficulty to find, and the
high cost of, really good beef steak or roast. The
Ticos simply do not create Steers to generate good
marbled beef. The good side of that is; the
hamburger is very lean and flavorful.
Back
to the Restaurant, the “La Piazzetta” in front
of the Banco Costa Rica on the Paseo Colon. It is on
the corner of Paseo Colon and just a couple of
blocks north of the ARCR office. Phone: 778-8025. We
went in because we were hungry and it looked very
nice. When I asked if it was “muy cara” the
Waiters all said no. I knew better, but we were
ready to have a nice, fancy meal. Our very cheerful
Waiter, Maurice Vega spoke English pretty well and
wanted to practice so we helped each other. The
place specializes in Italian foods and all of the
items on the menu sounded great. We asked if the
Special Filet (I could not pronounce what it is
called) was good and, of course he said it was an
excellent selection. It came with a Brown sauce with
some kind of special mushrooms I had not heard of.
We both ordered this Medium Rare and a couple
glasses of House Merlot Wine. It was excellent so we
ordered another glass.
He
served a FRESH salad with oil and vinegar dressing
and some very good sliced Garlic bread. Then he
brought out the steaks. Each one looked like it
weighed 12 ounces or more. When we cut into them;
they were cooked just right (increasing Pink into
the center which was almost Red). They were very
tender and flavorful and there was no excess fat or
gristle. The sauce was suuuuperb. We ate every bit
on the plate.
We
ordered one of the house special desserts that is
like a bread pudding with Liqueur on top. WOW
another homerun. The total bill with a good tip was
close to $40, but we may die tomorrow and are not
trying to leave much money to our children and
grandchildren.
What
a country!!!
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