Bar Milan

On Friday, our friend Pablo invited us once again to have lunch with his family. Lunch is truly the biggest meal in Mexico as opposed to dinner in the US. Although lunch is the most important meal of the day in my part of the world as well, I have to say that it is nothing compared to a Mexican lunch. They stop working to eat at around 2:30-3:00PM and it lasts for two hours after which they return to work until 7:00-8:00. Except on Fridays they often don't go back to work! I have no idea how they can do any work being so full as I was after the incredible lunch at Pablo's family...

His mom made the famous chile en nogada, a seasonal dish that we mentioned before. But that came later... before we had a soup that I am a huge fan of now and will regularly cook it from now on. It's a black bean soup (mashed) with angel hair pasta in it, simple but never had any better bean soup. Then there was a "middle dish", tortillas with nopale (cactus served with every meal) and rice. And only after all these were we served the deliciously rich chile en nogada, which is so creamy (pure walnut sauce), somewhat sweet but with ground pork, and it's very-very filling... I could barely move at this point, but there was also dessert coming, a very interesting fruit mashed and mixed with oranges, but the whole thing was black. It is called "sapote" (had to look it up) and it is very unique, not very sweet, a little tart.

Anyways, apparently everybody went back to work after this feast, but me and James could barely make it home for a nap... In the evening when we were ourselves again, we took Pablo's friend's advice and went to check out a new bar called Bar Milan, which is not very far from us. We even took a pesero (bus) there, which means that we have started finding our ways slowly. The Bar is pretty cool, you have to pay at the cashier and exchange your money to "Milagro" which is their "currency" that you can use at the bar. They have a great variety of cocktails, decently priced although not cheap, but tip is included in the price. We had two very good mochitos (the best so far here), hung out, didn't meet anybody, but were intensely observing people...younger, older, really mixed crowd, more man than women, definitely more single men than single women...Then we came home (again on a pesero) and checked out a neighborhood place, as it turned out more American than Mexican (free peanuts), but we had a great spicy guacamole (for the first time since we are here).
Tomorrow is our day off, we have lots of plans, we'll see what happens. Oh, and almost all museums are free on Sundays!