Small Bites

December 2019

Bachour has taken northern Salzedo by storm with its awesome breakfasts and world’s best pastries. Now they are open until 10 p.m. for dinner…. Mara on Giralda Plaza put up a valiant effort to serve real Basque cuisine. Perhaps too arcane, now it’s reinvented itself as a suddenly popular house of tapas… At Miss Saigon on Giralda, we are sorry to see the help no longer wearing traditional Vietnamese garb, trading in the full-length robes for T-shirts that read “Me love you long time” and “What the Pho?”… With no bakery actually on the Mile, Madeleines & More (above) has opened to fill the gap. Check out those apple turnovers… Finally more upscale dining will appear on Giralda west of Ponce, with this month’s opening of Mediterranean eatery Tur Kitchen, in the Giralda Plaza building… Palme d’Or, formerly ground zero for haute cuisine tasting menus at the Biltmore that started at $90, is now serving its extraordinary cuisine a la carte…