Frommers.com Frommers.com
Most Recent Destination Forum Posts
Most Recommended Articles
Most Commented Articles
  Print This Article Print Get Frommer's RSS Feed RSS

Restaurant/Bar Bugambilia Frommer's Exceptional

Cuisine Mexican
Hours Daily noon-11pm
Address
Hidalgo 42
Location Between Insurgentes and Calzada de la Luz, Around Town
Transportation From the Jardín, walk 2 1/2 blocks north on Hidalgo
Reservations Reservations recommended on weekends
Phone 415/152-0127
Prices Main courses $10-$17 (£5.50-£9.35)
Credit Cards MC, V

Frommer's Review

One can ask little more of a restaurant -- delicious and attractive dishes, a large menu, good service, well-spaced tables, and a choice between dining in an elegant plant-filled courtyard and a large dining room, which in cool weather holds a roaring fire. Señora Arteaga offers a delicious variation on chiles en nogada (stuffed poblano chile with walnut cream sauce) -- she marinates the pepper and serves it cold, not fried in batter. The chiles en nogada have been the object of many innovations, but most fail because they don't preserve the essence of this baroque dish, which balances opposites like the point and counterpoint of a fugue. Too spicy or too sweet, too strong a taste of meat or onions, and the magic is lost. Something simpler, perhaps? Start with the caldo Xochitl (the perfect soup for an irritable stomach), followed by traditional enchiladas del portal cooked in chile ancho sauce.

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


  Print This Article Print Get Frommer's RSS Feed RSS


Destination Guide
Destination Guide Destination Guide Destination Guide
Destination Guide Destination Guide Frommer's Mexico 2009 Destination Guide Frommer's Mexico 2009

Author: David Baird
Pub Date: September 02, 2008
Price: $23.99

Add to Cart
Destination Guide Destination Guide Destination Guide Related Titles:
Cancun & the Yucatan For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Destination Guide
Frommer's Cancun & the Yucatan Day by Day, 1st Edition
Destination Guide
Frommer's Cancun, Cozumel & the Yucatan 2010
Destination Guide
Destination Guide Destination Guide
Destination Guide Destination Guide Destination Guide
Destination Guide
Destinations