Mama Mexico

It has been a busy week and I just realised that I have not posted since Monday. What impact does this have your lives? Well none really except that you have to wait a couple of extra days to hear about my adventures in the big apple.

After surviving our adventures in Brooklyn, we made it back to the UWS in one piece and headed to Mama Mexico for dinner. This place is in vogue at the moment and we were lucky to get in due to a cancellation. The beer menu on offer was not very exciting, just your regular Mexican faire of tasteless lagers with the exception of Dos Equis XX Ambre (which I opted for).

Most beer geeks will know that South America is a haven for amber coloured Vienna style lagers and I was well chuffed that Mama Mexico's were offering more that your regular Corona and friends options. Anyhow I strongly recommend Mama Mexico's (101st and Broadway) for a feed - best guacamole in town.

On the way back to our room we stopped at another off licence and picked up some Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream for the missus and some Pete's Wicked Ale for myself. This beer was OK, well at least it didn't taste like pinecones. Besides this it was kind of bland and I won't be bothering again. I also managed to finish off the Ben & Jerry's after my beer and watch some more mindless but utterly intriguing US reality TV. A good way to finish off a boozy day.

Modelo Especial

I was back in London briefly last week and met up with my wife at the new London Westfield shopping centre. For those of you who do not know much about these Australian style shopping malls, they are modelled from the original Miranda Fair, which is a stones throw from my oldies place in Sydney. Anyhow there are a few restaurants which offer various gastronomique delights, one being Wahaca which brings Wagamama style service to mexican cuisine. Anyhow, from the menu I ordered a Modelo Especial (4.4% abv) which to be honest, tasted like cats piss. I guess that its from Mexico and is on par with Corona and other such tastless offerings.

I would not recommend this beer! The food was pretty poor to boot. I can do better at home with an Old el Paso kit. Website

Sausalito's House Lager

As I have been neglecting the blog due to work travel, I thought I would pop in a quick post. Work has seen me be located in Wuppertal Germany over the last couple of weeks. As mentioned this place being in close proximity to both Düsseldorf and Cologne has both Kolsch and Alt beers being widely available. I went to dinner with a colleague of mine to a Mexican restaurant called Sausalito's. I ordered a pitcher of their home made house lager expecting something unique, instead I received a pitcher of lime juice with a fair whack of tequila in it. Apparently there is beer in there somewhere, but all I could taste is pure alcohol, plus Ice and Slice! It was easy drinking but tasted like shit. It also included a straw!
Sausalitos has a website: http://www.sausalitos.de/ If you watch the video on their home page you could confuse the Mexican joint with a strip club.