Me and Chef Sebastián Flores at Garzón.
I had the chance of enjoying a really nice and fulfilling meal at the Restaurant Garzon, in the good company of Sebastián Flores whom I hadn't seen for quite a while in the tiny, tiny town in the middle of nowhere in Uruguay called Garzón.
This kind of deserted town has only 200 inhabitants but it is charming! The people are nice and pleasant and it looks like time stopped a few years back, and everything is quiet and still as it was 50 years ago.
This was until, world known Argentinian Chef Francis Mallmann fell in love with this place and decided to open one of his restaurants here. He bought one lovely brick house, on one of the corners of the main square and he opened the Hotel & Restaurant Garzon.
It is quite expensive, but because my friend Sebas was working there for the summer, we got an important discount!
The food is good, huge portions, all cooked with locally raised animals and fresh vegetables. We stayed in the house of local Nicolas Mendez, one of the sous-chef's at the restô and his house's farm, taken care by his mom, supplies most of the vegetables to the restaurant and having the opportunity to visit it we got to know the vast variety of normal and weird vegetables that they grow there. It was cool to see how the things that are in your plate are so naturally raised and grown.
What I most liked about the food here is that the dishes are so, so simple, but having such high quality ingredients, makes them GREAT. But that's how it is supposed to be... isn't it?!
Ohhhh and the fig's soup, don't get me started.... it's Amazing!
This kind of deserted town has only 200 inhabitants but it is charming! The people are nice and pleasant and it looks like time stopped a few years back, and everything is quiet and still as it was 50 years ago.
This was until, world known Argentinian Chef Francis Mallmann fell in love with this place and decided to open one of his restaurants here. He bought one lovely brick house, on one of the corners of the main square and he opened the Hotel & Restaurant Garzon.
It is quite expensive, but because my friend Sebas was working there for the summer, we got an important discount!
The food is good, huge portions, all cooked with locally raised animals and fresh vegetables. We stayed in the house of local Nicolas Mendez, one of the sous-chef's at the restô and his house's farm, taken care by his mom, supplies most of the vegetables to the restaurant and having the opportunity to visit it we got to know the vast variety of normal and weird vegetables that they grow there. It was cool to see how the things that are in your plate are so naturally raised and grown.
What I most liked about the food here is that the dishes are so, so simple, but having such high quality ingredients, makes them GREAT. But that's how it is supposed to be... isn't it?!
Ohhhh and the fig's soup, don't get me started.... it's Amazing!
El link del Restaurante Cambio es : www.restaurantegarzon.com.
ReplyDelete