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Buenos Aires: Casa Saltshaker

Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.casasaltshaker.com

Reviewed by: Digital Traveler Bill from NY, review #2328

When: 2006

Is it a one of a kind dinner experience for anyone who is in Buenos Aires.

Directions: It is located in the Barrio Norte area of Buenos Aires.

Casa Saltshaker is not a restaurant or is located where the public can go to eat anytime they wish. It is unique place to have a unique dinner in Buenos Aires. I had dinner here because I was interested in that unique dinner experience and I certainly found it.

Casa Saltshaker is located in an apartment. There is a website for Casa SaltShaker, where you can find the menus and the nights, usually Friday and Saturday for dinners.

The starter I was served Salmon and Daikon Sashimi with Rosehip Liqueur. The second course was Barley and Roast Beef Risotto.

Then main course was Pork Loin in a sauce of Gin and Olives served with Capers Camembert Salad with a caramel liqueur and mustard vinaigrette.

Dessert was warm chocolate noodles with red fruits marinated in Orange and Honey Liqueurs. Just reading what I had for dessert again makes me hungry and it was delicious dessert to have.

Also, during dinner, I was served two wines- a red and white that were excellent. After dinner, I was served an orange liqueur, Tapaus, that was that exceptional. As I was slowly drinking this liqueur, I decided I was going to buy some and brought two bottles of Tapaus back home with me.

I should mention besides the excellent dinner there is another aspect that adds to the unique experience at Casa Saltshaker. I sat down to dinner with five other dinner guests who were strangers to me. We had lively discussions about Buenos Aires and our lives back home.

For me, when I have excellent food cooked with care by the chief Dan Perlman, drinking wine for the first time and finding them wonderful and sitting down to dinner with interesting people to talk to, dinner is always going to be memorable experience and it certainly was at Casa Saltshaker.

Recently Casa Saltshaker was reviewed in New York Times and the reviewer mentioned something about that Casa Saltshaker is for insiders when in Buenos Aires. I did not even know I was one before the New York Times pointed it out.

Is it a one of a kind dinner experience for anyone who is in Buenos Aires.

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