Our Man in Antigua

this town…rumors circulate at the speed of light: some true, the others mostly not…por ejemplo, I was told that Wendy Wever is leaving town…half an hour later I run into her and her dad, Phil…at Reilly’s…’NO..I’m not leaving…”  Penelope, tall cool blonde bartenderess at the aforementioned…supposedly had gout, per Ryan…you know, too much red meat, alcohol, high altitude and not enough water…per Penny…untrue…X-rays and so on…just a twisted foot..thanks, Ryan.

 thank you…one and all for the extensive and surprise birthday messages…I’m truly blessed with great and good friends…and I don’t take that lightly. Hot News! El Muro has initiated their pub grub menu and its F%$#@! great…corn dogs! burritos, tex-mex style…I had their cheesecake at the opening and the varieties were xlnt…Matteo of Cashbar hanging at Reilly’s…the 1000 year old belly dancer, Henrik leaves for Denmark via a very circuitous..ah hell,spell check ain’t workin’ on that one..it means long/weird via Iberia Air..Managua, San Jose, Panama…who the hell knows? the question I have, is with the airport in the City closed, where does one get on the plane?

I love Iberia Airline

  So…what…it occurs to me that some bar/restaurants in this town have their own niches…no, not nietzche…niches…Alex Farrar of Sobremesa…art and small batch specialty ice creams…Fernando…small batch specialty coffee and chocolate. John Wilbur of El Muro puts out a commercial grade of salsa that, if it were available,  I’d be buying it for home use.  Corn dogs? perfectly done. and at 15q, a steal..gimme a great burger and some killer bbq ribs, somewhere, sometime..yeah, I do my own, compliments of John Mellon’s Epicure, but…outside of Jimmy Three Finger’s bbq in Granada(Nicaragua) good bbq is hard to find…and don’t tell me that Tony Roma’s is good…its KFC quality….ask Amber, Ocelot’s Wednesday night lady behind the bar person..she’s from Texas, near Austin, where bbq is a sacrament….flash/weird idea..Murray…come out of retirement and do a barbecue  joint..

Next year