Unlike the last two years, Paul Baker decided not to celebrate his birthday at Spring World this year (2010, 2011) and instead we all went to Cafe Laguardia. I’d never been to Cafe Laguardia before and I quite liked the food.
I wanted to order this:
When the waitress came over to take our order, Paul said, “You have red snapper on the menu six different ways, which is the best?” And the waitress said, “We’re all out of the red snapper fillets, so you can have a whole red snapper or you can have none.” Paul got the whole red snapper (and made out with it). I had none. Instead I had this:
Roast Pork (Pernil De Cerdo Asado), sliced pork lightly sauteed with onions and garlic sauce. For an appetizer we all split some pork that was slow roasted for 16 hours and it was so good, I asked the waitress which entree was most like it and this is what she pointed me towards. SO GOOD. And a big portion. I took half of it home and had a delicious pork quesadilla the next day!
Obviously Paul loved his fish too. He sure cleaned it off the bones!
At the end they brought out flan for Paul’s “birthday cake.” I didn’t try it, but he said it was good. Happy birthday, Paul!
