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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: mmmmmm, Durham
  • Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:14:02 -0800 (PST)

Do you mean El Cuscatleco? It ain't new, but it is
delicious!



--- jim.brantley AT gmail.com wrote:

> I second that! Piedmont is unreal. The porkchop I
> had there was an
> absolute culinary triumph.
> http://www.piedmontrestaurant.com/home.html
>
> Another excellent porkchop to be had is at El
> Cuscatlero, a new
> Guatemalan restaurant on Garret Road in Durham (near
> the 15-501
> intersection, on the non-Bojangles side). They also
> have an amazing
> mariachi band there every other Friday night,
> complete with two
> trumpets and two violins!
>
> grady wrote:
> > Just wanted to state briefly for the record that
> the meal I had at
> > Piedmont last night was one of the best meals I've
> ever eaten, anywhere.
> > Specifically: the duck-liver mousse & the pork
> belly, while collectively
> > subtracting about 18 years from my life, left me
> in a state of utter
> > ecstasy that I'm still kinda buzzed on.
> >
> > Those people are making amazing food, in a
> beautiful understated space,
> > and they're charging $5 too little for nearly
> every item on the menu. By
> > the time we left, at around 8:30 on a Monday
> night, nearly every table
> > was full. Abby said that the weekends are already
> cram-packed. Go on a
> > weeknight (and leave any fat-phobias you may
> harbor at home, I guess),
> > and while you're enjoying yr meal, take a minute
> to marvel at the fact
> > that 2 of the owner/operators of the joint also
> played a big role in the
> > recording of one of the best local CDs of 2006,
> Erie Choir's "Slighter
> > Awake." Go Durham.
> >
> > xo
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > p.s. lunch at Rue Cler, while marred by a few too
> many canned/jarred
> > ingredients, did feature some fucking delicious
> bread courtesy of our
> > own Kevin Farmer. It's fresh daily at 2:00 p.m,
> and while the long-term
> > plan seems to be that you order yr bread by noon
> for pickup at 2:00,
> > here at the beginning it appears to be a fairly
> safe play to just show
> > up at 2:00 and grab a loaf. Had it again for
> breakfast this morning.
> > Outstanding.
> > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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>
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>


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