Chicken Nachos from La Fuente Restaurant

Chicken Nachos from La Fuente Restaurant

Nachos is what happens when you build upon the concept of the simple Guatemalan tostada de guacamol.

Nachos are not a native food from Guatemala, but Nachos have made a big room within the new Guatemalan diet; at least in La Antigua. How could Nachos not do that, if they are made with tostada chips (deep-fried tortillas), beans (black beans for Guatemala, please), guacamol (avocado sauce), pico de gallo with chiltepes chilies, beef or chicken and cheese; all ingredients readily available in the Guatemalan cuisine realm.

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Healthy Lunch: Chef Salad and The New Yorker

Every once in a while is good to stop eating Guatemalan food and eat something healthy, like a chef salad from La Fuente restaurant. A salad and the New Yorker Magazine is what I consider a healthy lunch. The article about an unknown photographer by the name of Eugene De Salignac and his photo of painters spreading out like musical notes, on the Brooklyn Bridge, over the sky line of New York, was most definitely the best dessert I have had in a long while.

Having the Sun for Lunch

Yes Manolo, the weather gods are on LAG side. Above you see a group of tourist having the Sun for lunch and enjoying too. Yes the temperate weather gods have been given La Antigua Guatemala temperatures between 68 and 74 degrees Fahrenheit in the harshest Winter month. Oh boy, life is wonderful in La Antigua Guatemala…