Weekend Brunch in San Telmo

Here's something I hope takes off! Honest to God brunch at what has to be a ¼ of the Sheraton price... complete with bloody marys and mimosas made with fresh squeezed OJ (Screw the food! Let's drink!)

Our friend, Eve Hyman has partnered with her friends at Restaurant Macama in San Telmo (great people, by the way) to bring you what you crave: Proper Brunch.

Now I know, I know... what a non-Yanqui Mike thing to say. What a typical tourist-like longing for things in Buenos Aires to be like they are back home. "What did you ever leave Chicago for, Mike?"

But wait a minute. Every tourist, traveler, expat, immigrant ...anywhere in the world ...from anywhere in the world ...is granted one exemption from cultural immersion:

it's ok to wake up in the morning and want
to eat the food your mother served you.

Not that my mother served brunch! Don't get the wrong idea here! But all the ingredements are basically there: yer eggs, yer sausage, yer hashbrowns, yer toast, yer pancakes, yer vodka, yer tomato juice ...all the stuff that our splendid porteño hosts can't believe that we eat while still in our pajamas! Imagine the Argentine fascination with not only getting to see us eat that stuff for breakfast ...but getting to try it out themselves!

This weekend was the maiden voyage for Eve's new ship ...and I'm so disappointed that I wasn't there. Oh well, she said there were a few kinks to iron out... but she also said it was "yummy"!

Here's the lowdown, Brown: the current menu (probably due to expand at any moment)

* two eggs any style with hash browns or breakfast potatoes (sauteed chunky with onions and tomatoes) plus sliced avocado
* omelette with choice of mozzarella, queso macina, roquefort, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, peppers, ham, spinach, chorizo
* 2 pancakes served with honey or caramelized sugar syrup
* pancake tatin (apple baked-in)
* mimosas, bloody marias, tornilladores

Eggs Benedict is on the way, I'm told. And dig the precios: $16 peso plates, $18 for omelettes and $15 peso tragos.

Better get there before the bored-out-of-their-skulls San Telmo Market crowd catches on to it... you'll never get in the place when that happens.

Currently serving Sat/Sun from 11am to 4pm.
Restaurant Macama
Perú y Brasil
San Telmo
4361-3983

If I'm in town this weekend, I'll see you there ...and I'll sign-up any yanquis for their absentee ballot for November.