Wednesday 10 February
When she was here as a visiting
assistant professor, our friend Rose really liked the salmon they served at
Django in Northside. So tonight we took
her to meet Lauren and Eleni (both Northside denizens) for an informal dinner
there.
Unfortunately the place seems to
have undergone drastic changes of management, menu, and quality. The salmon dish was gone, and the menu
featured ramen. What sort of taco place
serves ramen? Or has a chef wearing a
wookie hat working the grill? Still, the
margaritas and espresso ale came pretty quickly, and the table dealt well with the
guacamole, chips, and cheese-topped lentil appetizers.
Our first main was a trio of tacos: carne asada with guacamole and pickled
onion (pretty good), al pastor (ground
pork, pineapple, mint, and cilantro, dusted with queso fresco - in other words,
a mess), and fish (strangely, battered cod, with a rather leaky tomato salsa
and toasted onion shreds).
The best thing was the special, a pan-roasted fillet of steelhead
trout with nice crispy skin, topped with sprouts, on a bed of butternut squash
and spinach, dotted with broccoli "pesto."
But other than that, no one who actually likes Mexican, or indeed any, food
would have reason to go to Django.
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