Reviewed
by Nancy Snipper
Homemade food served in a salon
You may very well be sitting alone
loving the fact you are dining in an old world setting of high ceilings and
cathedral windows that cast the sun’s
rays on old marble tiles that echo a time gone by.
Quiet and staring at the fancy oak table dressed
with a hand-made table cloth and place settings with cloth table mats, you
await the wonderful homemade food cooked by Alondra Cervantes McLendon or her
sister Olma and personally served by them. What a quiet way to feel so
important!
The menu changes every night of the week
and that too changes the next week. I had a fabulous thick yet delicate green
zucchini soup with a fresh salad, Shepherds’ pie and cookies for dessert – all
for less than six dollars. I’m going back to try another four-course meal next
week.
This elegant room is attached an even
larger living room filled with family heirlooms. There’s an old upright piano,
and off to the side is the kitchen where the two sisters cook.
I
have never had an experience like this.
I felt I was being served be my own personal cook on a Downton Abbey
set. The best thing was finding it by sheer chance. I was drawn to a majestic
stone arch bordered by a garden. I
happened to ask the gardener who was also in charge of tending to rooms if
there was a restaurant. I knocked on the door he pointed to, ended up in that
lovely living room. The rest is history. Another unexpected miracle in San
Miguel!
The
address is 125A Ancha de San Antonio.
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