Comida y Bebida 2

With eating and drinking featuring so highly on this trip, I couldn't finish the Blog without adding a further part to the food and drink post. 

Food and drink part one finished part way through our week in Bariloche, with what seemed like an entire roasted lamb.  Pleasingly there was still a number of culinary delights to come.

From Bariloche we went on a day trip to a town called El Bolson, with a plan to go for a walk for the day.  However, some fairly torrential rain made us decide instead to have a day of gourmet eating and drinking.  El Bolson is known for vegetarian, locally grown and organic food, so we started off well with an amazing pumpkin pie with cheese and honey, pictured above, for lunch.

We then focussed on testing some of the products of the many micro breweries in El Bolson.  The gourmet food element didn't progress much further, after our first few beers, but we had a great day all in all.  We finished up with a couple of eponomous beers accompanied by declicous empanadas.











Not wanting to miss out on any Patagonian specialities, on our last night in Bariloche, I had trout in lemon and garlic, which was utterly delicious.

I'd like to point out at this stage that we didn't eat out for every meal on this trip, and quite a lot of economising was done with picnics, some cooking in hostels and of course filling up on empanadas  - but we made sure we had plenty of good meals out and tested as many local specialities as possible!

Next up was the much anticipated crab in Puerto Montt.  It was slim pickings as far as restaurants were concerned, but this one came up trumps with not only a variety of crab dishes, but crab and avocado - that really does take some beating!  So delightful was the crab selection that I found it necessary to have it for both starter and main course.

We then had the three nights on board Navimag, where, whilst the food was okay, it certainly wasn't something to blog about. 

But luckily more crab was just around the corner for me in Puerto Natales.  Sadly Conger Eel was out of season, but this King Crab dish provided a most welcome alternative.





This is in a lovely restaurant in El Calafate, after visiting the glacier.  The main speciality of the town is lamb stew, so obviously that's what I had to have, and it didn't disapoint. 

I couldn't resist taking this photo.  It's in a restaurant in Ushuaia called Moustaccio, which aside from having a comedy name, also served a wide selection of seafood dishes.  Lured by Lonely Planet's mention of a crab omlette, I was then slightly dissapointed with that dish, as the crab did not really predominate.

However, this was made up for the following night in one of my favourite restaurants of the trip.  I did survey the again quite wide variety of sea food dishes, but couldn't resist crab, knowing this was probably my last chance.  I plumped for crab au gratin, and it was a taste sensation.  Chris had the most ginormous seafood soup, accompanied by Beagle Beer, so he was also happy.

There's one last category of food which I consumed throughout the trip, but which strangely doesn't seem to have been captured on camera at all - and that is ice cream.  Argentina in particular is well-known for its ice-cream, and so that gave me an excuse to sample it as often as possible.  We came across a large variety of flavours, some very specific to Argentina.  My favourite (for novelty, rather than flavour) was malbec, located, not surprisingly, in Mendoza.