Okay, how is the voting going, Cuenca or Montantilla on the Pacific Coast? Decided to explore this evening a restaurant recommended in Rough Guide (a great series, by the way)...Columbian food, muy typico. Quote: Moliendo Fantastic little Columbian eatery offering inexpensive authentic cuisine such as arepas (corn pancakes) with a variety of toppings like hogao (delicious slow-cooked tomato and onion gloop.) Wash it down with a refrajo.
Refrajo basically a strong lager with a soft drink mixed in. I passed.
Walked in with some reading material (an August copy of the New Yorker I purloined from the hotel) hoping I would not stand out too much. Me - the only non Columbian cat in the joint, but warmly welcomed by grand papa, who showed me a table and said Bien? Are you well. Instantly comfortable.
Menu arrives and the prices are so ridiculously low that I assume I must order multiple dishes to walk away sated. I choose a house specialty and a pollo dish on top of that and grand papa gently suggests that the first dish is good for now. I acquiesce, order a Columbian cerveza and quietly pull out my New Yorker and hope that this is not a breach of propriety in Columbia or Ecuador.
I am saved. In walk two sweet and cute chicas who have their fashion magazines in their faces before they even order, in fact probably before they even take their seats. Apparently, taking a magazine out for a dinner date is okay here. Then who walks in but the damned cutest little toddler girl you{ve ever seen with a lollipop in her mouth. She waltzes up and down the restaurant saying hola to all and then runs to grand papa and I realize there{s a reason he has that title. I wave, she waves back, she waves again and resumes the restaurant waltz.
Meal comes, and is devoured and it is quite enough, thank you very much. Thank you grand papa for good counsel. I am ready not for dessert, since the entree came with rice, beef and sweet plantains, but perhaps some Columbian brew. Cafe tinto (black) does the trick. I go to grand papa to resolve la cuenta, he pulls his calculator out and reveals the damages - $4.80 for cerveza, entree and coffee.
WTF?
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