Friday, February 11, 2011

Zacatecas street food

Fresh off the grill tamales, honey from cactus, freshly baked cakes, chopped and ready to cook cactus, home made cheese and quince...aah heaven!







Zacatecas Streets







Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Zacatecas

Lovely hostel, with a view to the main city cathedral at 6:30 AM.




Thursday, February 3, 2011

Off to Zacatecas in an overnight bus...

to the central Mexico mountains, apparently an old colonial silver mining city...Our Lady of Guadalupe stay with the bus :-)



Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Monterrey downtown, Barrio Antiguo

Was apparently quite an artsy, fun, alternative neighborhood till it fell to the wrong hands a year or so ago...
peeps of life here and there...

Closed restaurants

Empty streets

'Hindu' restaurant

Habita Hotel Sky Bar, San Pedro

flanked on either side by the ever present mountains...


Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Que' Sabroso!

Had an amazing meal at an 'underground' restaurant called Fonda de San Francisco. Now only if the beer not been flowing with such generosity I would have been able to document the last two Sabroso items too! :-)




Chicken with pastilla
Corn fungus with plantain salsa
Chicken with stuffs
Goat cheese, cactus strips and  honey
La Fonda interiors



Revellers, us.


Shrunken skull wall art