Five New Restaurant Openings in San Miguel de Allende
Chef/Owner Marco Bruzzone of FiammaIf you’re walking around SMA, trying to keep up with the new restaurant openings, we’ll make it easy for you; here’s a short list....
View Article62 Eats a $100 Peso Note Will Buy in San Miguel de Allende
If you think San Miguel de Allende is getting too expensive to eat out, apparently you haven’t been back in the states lately, where patrons don’t think twice about spending $20.00 for a cocktail....
View ArticleSan Miguel de Allende: Food’s We Can’t Live Without
Sea Urchin Ceviche@ArtioOver the course of the past 5 years, we’ve eaten at just about every restaurant in SMA. One thing we know: it...
View ArticleA Visual Tribute: Chef Marco Cruz of Nomada cocina de interpretacion
All of the dishes we’ve eaten since we first started photographing, devouring and celebrating Chef Marco Cruz's remarkable food back in December, 2015, incorporate something special; pushing boundaries...
View ArticleThe Best Sandwiches in San Miguel de Allende
We’ve listed eighteen sandwiches that convinced us the best meal of the day in SMA can be found between two slices of bread. With an Egg Salad, Dagwood, Bologna, Corned Beef on Rye, Tuna Melt, Club,...
View ArticleChef Juan Arroyo Pineda Opens SMA's Latest Culinary Gem: La Doña
In the grand style of her namesake, actress Maria Felix, La DONA has arrived and she promises to be one of the most talked about new restaurants in SMA this year. Located at San Francisco #32 in San...
View ArticleBar Margaret at Hotel Amparo
We discovered Bar Margaret, a charming, tiny spot in the front of Hotel Amparo, one of the small, luxury hotels of the world, where our good friend, Gabriel Avila, creates cocktails with selective,...
View Article30 Reasons to Love San Miguel de Allende Right Now
We think some of the best things to see in San Miguel de Allende are found on a plate. We hope you’ll tag along as we rediscover our city over the next few months,finding new dishes from chefs who are...
View ArticleThe Full Picture...
Do you follow us on our other social media? Here’s just a sampling of our recent Facebook posts; a lot of which are never published on this blog. You'll also see a lot more of our photographs that tell...
View ArticleA Self-Guided Food Tour of San Miguel de Allende
When I came to SMA back in June, 2013, the food scene was owned by a few chefs and a handful of restaurants. 2016 changed all that with new restaurants opening almost every week. Every day, someone is...
View Article30 MORE Reasons to Love San Miguel de Allende Right Now
A love letter to San Miguel de Allende…we could write a long one. Where else can you open your front door and get the best view of fireworks every weekend or discover that the breakfast of champions is...
View ArticleSan Miguel de Allende: A Different View
There’s a lot to love about San Miguel de Allende. Whether you’re getting a bird’s eye view from the top of the city’s most celebrated landmarks, taking it all in from a hot air balloon or jumping...
View ArticleSix Favorite Go-To Spots in San Miguel de Allende
In January 2020, we’ll summarize all the best of 2019. In the mean time, we’re closing out the year with six restaurant restaurants; all favorites and regular stops on our monthly tastings around...
View ArticleSeven Hours and Counting: New Years Eve at Atrio
I don't know about you but our list of much loved restaurants in San Miguel de Allende is long; longer than it should be for a town this size and since we did chef tributes in 2019, we’ll do some to...
View ArticleSan Miguel de Allende: Foods That Make Us Happy!
The quality of your life can be elevated by the foods you eat so we’ve been out all month looking for food that will make you happy. Although we cut off the list, many of the chefs have recently added...
View ArticleLa Dona: A Dinner with Chef Daniel Nates
Virgilio Martínez Véliz, the chef at Central in Lima, one of the best restaurants in the world, has a tasting menu of 17 courses; all based on Peru’s elevations. More than anything else, I love food...
View ArticleSixteen More Reasons to Love Mexico City
I was in Mexico City for eleven days to cover for a friend and chef who was off to teach the world about healthy food. Meanwhile, I wasn’t thinking about healthy food at all; the culinary temptations...
View ArticleWhere We Ate in 2019: A Tribute
2019 was a year of surprises in the kitchens of SMA, with chefs offering up exciting, new dishes that went far beyond what we expected. More often than not, we loved the food so consequently, many new...
View ArticleSMA Restaurants: Surviving COVID-19, One Day at a Time
I don’t know about you but I’m having withdrawal from not eating out and it’s only been three weeks.One of the last chefs I spoke to on my daily walks around town was Gabriela Landin Castro of Kab’an,...
View ArticleSome Things Never Change…
Despite the fact that I’m in Quarantine, the highlight of my day is still planning my next meal.Delivery… Last week, it was Nomada, Rustica and Smoked’ N Low. The surprises:A totally elevating apple...
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