April 29, 2025 Breakfast at La Leguado. Lunch at Mares Snack with Dalia and Sebastian

April 29, 2025 Breakfast at La Leguado. Lunch at Mares Snack with Dalia and Sebastian

We started the day by having coffee and a pastry at La Laguado that is rated a 4.8 for coffee.  Elaine and I ordered banana nut bread with chocolate chips. Billy ordered a croissant and Suzette ate the chocolate pastry left from yesterday’s breakfast at Selena.

We then taxied to BA’s eco park and walked to the river and back, a distance of over three miles. Then we split up and Suzette and I walked to Peruvian Nikkei restaurant that turned out to not be a restaurant because the chef was not there and then joined Billy and Elaine at Mares, a lovely restaurant in the new modern area built along an old canal.

Billy and Elaine ordered a grilled seafood platter for two that was immense and full of squid, mussels, shrimp, and different types of fish.

I chose grilled hake and Suzette ordered seafood risotto.

I loved my hake served with sautéed spinach, but Suzette’s seafood risotto was the winner dotted with tiny pieces of chopped mushroom, fish, and calamari ringlets. The secret was that the risotto tasted like it had been cooked with fish and mushroom stock.

We ordered another bottle of rose from the Uco Valley that also excellent.

After the late lunch at 4:00 we ubered back to the apartment and rested until 6:00 when we went to Dos Escudos to meet Dalia and her boyfriend Sebastián and crossed the street for a drink at Socorro until 8:00 when we went home to pack to return to the States tomorrow.

I walked over 11,000 steps today, a new post op record.

We went to bed early because we will need to rise at 4:15 to make our 8:00 flight.

It has been a wonderful trip to Argentina with Billy and Elaine.

We look forward to going to the Everglades National Park.

Bon Appetit