Monday, April 27, 2009
It's Different Down Here
A friend recently took us to Chilo's restaurant, a huge, wildly popular, low-priced, family-style seafood restaurant located on the road to Queretaro. The food was good, not great -- but included a seafood caldo (broth) that was obviously made from scratch with shrimp and lobster shells, as you'd expect in a fine bisque. Delicious! But what most stood out, on the day we visited (a national holiday) was the serious drinking folks were doing at mid-day. Note the gigante, yet near empty tequila bottle sitting on the table in the attached photo. When I snapped the shot, these guys had just paid their bill and were preparing to hop in their pick-up truck for parts unknown. And no one in the entire restaurant blinked an eye. Needless to say, we lingered awhile after our comida, hoping they'd already crashed or made it home. Yikes!
# posted by goots @ 3:31 PM 
