Adventures of Cameron & Emma in Buenos Aires

Shayda and Ben, who are visiting from portland, got reservations at an exclusive supper club, inside the apt of two very gay men who are historically well versed, and have amazing culinary tallent… The men host tri-weekly suppers, and focus their culinary selections around a historical event. The focus of this week’s dinner was the birthday of Emile Bayard. Born on November 2, 1837, he was an artist that lived outside of paris. Emile illistrated many famous books such as Les Miserables and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Because Emile was french the menu consisted of 5 dishes inspired by the food from his region of France. The first course was a brie torte, with a consistency of a savoury cheesecake. Along with each course they provided a wine pairing to complement the dish. The second course was white asparagus soup, with potato and white onion… this was one of my favorites. For the Third course we recieved a little “beggers bundle” of peas inside a crispy dough package. after our beggers bundle we had a stew of local fish in a light broth. And finally for dessert we had the most amazing cream and strawberries. the cream was actually a type of cheese that has a simaliar consistency to yogurt, but much much better!

the house holds about 15 people for dinnner, and there were some interesting characters. One woman was also from portland and works as a real estate agent for prudential. she focuses on NE portland so she knew our neighborhood well. there was a couple who were studying cooking in BA; the woman was from Colombia and the man from Guatamala, they were very cute. as usual there was the one awkward man who came alone and tended to talk a bit too loud and definitely too much, he would continually throw in information about his life, and the “accomplishments” he has made…and the “famous” people he has meet… (Drew Carrey)… there were two tables- one of which was for just four people, which we sat at…although it was a bit anti-social, we were glad not to have to converse with the random mix of people at the other table.

all in all the food was very good, and the experience was worth the 100 pesos… 30 US… I think George and Jody would have loved it!.. .maybe whey you guys come down?

after dinner we went to Mundo Bizzaro and had a few drinks before bed.. well emma and ben went home around two while cameron and shayda stayed out till 6..