Tabaré

Going to go straight to the pics..

I enjoyed this bottle of rosato.

Complimentary Bread

1 Cheese and 1 Chicken Empanadas - $7

The cheese empanada was great. The chicken, not so much. I remember it lacking flavor.

Churrasco - Grass-fat skirt steak, chimichurri sauce, potato confit, market salad - $19

The steak was good. They cooked it to my likely and the meat just tasted good. The chimichurri sauce on top of it was excellent too. The potato confit was okay. I don't like thick pieces of potato because there is usually not enough flavor to go around. It would have been better if this came with small pieces like potato wedges. The salad could have been good. It would have went well with the dish except that it was pretty salty. I think the guy coming around with the pepper mill actually had a salt mill instead...

I believe this was their flan de leche? Personally, I'm not a big fan of flan because I find it too sweet. I think the others at my table enjoyed it though.

Anyway, this is a good place for skirt steak. We got there at 6 on a Saturday evening and surprisingly, it wasn't that crowded at all. I guess 6 is a bit early for some people.

Tabaré
221 S 1st St (between Driggs Ave & Roebling St)
Brooklyn, NY 11211

(347) 335-0187
tabarenyc.com

Valencia Luncheria

So I've had this place on my list for years. I always tell myself to drop by the next time I'm in Connecticut for whatever reason. That never happened so I decided to go to CT one day just to eat here...

Too bad I was very disappointed.

Dulce de leche coffee - $3

I was falling asleep on the ride over so the person I dragged with me ordered this for me while I was washing my hands. It was good.

Mango Iced Tea - $2.50

I heard this was suppose to be really good. Don't ask me why but when I read mango iced tea, I was expecting mango flavored tea with some real pieces of mango in it.So yea, I was slightly disappointed when I saw this. But hey, I can live without the mango so I was still excited.

Blah, I was right from the start. The drink wasn't that great. It didn't have much of a taste. It came with a bottle filled with some kind of syrup or sweetened water so I was like, 'Ok, maybe it just needs a little of this...". I squeezed some in, stirred and sipped. Failed. I figure, "Ok, it needs some more syrup...::squeezes a lot more::". Nope, it still didn't help.

Even though I thought it sucked, I will still give it one more chance if I ever go back here.

Friend's soup. Can't remember what it was. I just know that I didn't really like it.

I wanna say this was the Ceviche Arepa Combo

Friend's meal. I didn't bother tasting the filling. I knew I wouldn't like it. He said it didn't taste good though. It didn't taste fresh. The rice and beans was good. The tostones was no good.

I can't remember this was Pernil or shredded beef. Whatever it was, it was dry and tasteless.

Zach (crispy chicken, honey) - $4.00

This was also dry and bland.

So overall, I doubt I will go out of my way to go to this place again. It has a pretty high rating on Yelp so I don't get it. Maybe I just went on a bad day?


Valencia Luncheria
164 Main St
Norwalk, CT 06851

(203) 846-8009
www.valencialuncheria.com