Food in Mestizo
Dessert in Mestizo
Time is going fast. It’s already last day in Santiago. This is a busy trip that we probably never stop our step. However, I recorded the Chilean food as well as I always do. I think Chilean food is tasty over I imagined.
To begin with, I want to talk about the drink I taste on Santa Hill on first day. Actually, I am unwilling to try this strange drink when I saw it in the first time because it is not good looking. However, somebody taste it and recommend to me. I just had a try. To my surprise, it so sweet! I immediately fell in love with this drink. According to a local person, it is a famous drink in Chile, called Monte con huesillo. People put wheat, peach, red sugar and water together and boil them over one and half hour to make this amazing drink.
Moreover, I would like to say something about restaurants we have been. In fact, I think all of the restaurants we had group meal in are good. But I like Mestizo most. To begin with, there are a good environment. This restaurant is half close and half open that customer can appreciate the pretty surrounding when they are having food. Besides, the food is also delicious. I ordered beef with pasta. The beef is smooth while the pasta also taste good. I also like the dessert which is as sweet as honey.
At last, I also want to recommend the fruit in Santiago. Mulberry, Blueberry and grape are famous here. They are sweet and full of water. Maybe this is the reason why their wine is well-known around the world.
Overall, I totally change my impression of the food in Chile. I love the food here. It may be a reason if I back to Chile for travel again in future.
Hi, Jackie. I totally agree with your idea of how surprise the food and drink are in Chile. I don’t know whether you have seen my earlier post of some judgements on Chilean juice, if you do, I have quite similar feeling of the level of sweetness of these drinks or dessert in Chile is super high. The drink called Monte con huesillo is my favorite one, I also have it when I was on the top of the Santa cristobal hill. I think the weather also have some effects on this drink, because that is a very hot day, so as thirsty as I am, a cool and fresh drink is what I’m looking for. After knowing the processing of preparing this drink is that long as you mentioned that people boil various kinds of ingredients over one and a half hour, I really feel the efforts of making this delicious drink.
The Mestizo is a nice restaurant as you have mentioned, how the architecture forms into the ground and become a semi-open space is really awesome.
I think this is the charming part of architecture, which could always surprise you with various kinds of changes with forms of solid and void. The environment is helping creating a very special moment while eating. Because when I’m having the salmon while looking at the beautiful scenery of how the edge of the park is linking to the restaurant, I feel released and relaxed. The combination of landscape and architecture is no doubt an additional inspiring part of having food and improves the impression and taste of the food as well.