{"id":61,"date":"2010-03-09T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:28:32","slug":"bienvenido-a-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2010\/03\/09\/bienvenido-a-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"Bienvenido a Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"Palermo Viejo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/4420380499_47ed82f609_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"442\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palermo Viejo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Total Miles Traveled:<\/strong> 7,581<\/p>\n<p>Hola Buenos Aires. \u00a0 We&#8217;re staying in the Palermo Viejo barrio for a few days before heading to el Calafate in southern Patagonia. \u00a0The area reminds us of a mixture of New York SoHo chic, with its designer clothing stores and cool cafes, and a bit of grit and indie from the East Village. \u00a0And having followed fashion in my last job, it looks a lot like L.A., though maybe a season ago (can&#8217;t believe I am actually able to comment on that&#8230; thanks <a title=\"beso\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beso.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beso<\/a>)? \u00a0 Haven&#8217;t spotted any hipsters yet, but it&#8217;s only day 1!<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m more excited about is the food. \u00a0Folks, I think we&#8217;ve found meat heaven. \u00a0Palermo is known for its restaurants and bars and we&#8217;ve been advised to go to parillas like <a title=\"La Cabrera in Palermo Viejo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parrillalacabrera.com.ar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">la Cabrera<\/a> for dishes like lomo a la pimienta (tenderloin with peppers) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parrillalacabrera.com.ar\/platos\/BIFEDECHORIZOCabrera.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bife de chorizo<\/a> (like a NY strip, called a rump steak). \u00a0Yum. \u00a0Can&#8217;t wait to see how it compares to what we&#8217;ve had in the States. \u00a0Even more exciting though is that there appears to be a wide variety of restaurants beyond parillas, so it&#8217;s not all about beef here.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the weather right now is about 80 degrees F with 80% humidity. \u00a0For those New Yorkers following along, it feels like New York in late summer &#8211; sticky but tolerable, and hoping that the next rain cloud brings a breeze and a bit of relief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-TC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Miles Traveled: 7,581 Hola Buenos Aires. \u00a0 We&#8217;re staying in the Palermo Viejo barrio for a few days before heading to el Calafate in southern Patagonia. \u00a0The area reminds us of a mixture of New York SoHo chic, with its designer clothing stores and cool cafes, and a bit of grit and indie from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}