Azul y Oro

Ok, this time I'll rant about a really nice place called "Azul y Oro" this place is located inside CU and has some of the best and most economic dishes I've ever seen. The place's motto is "No dish has to be expensive in order to look well" and they really stick on the philosophy.
All of the dishes look amazing and taste delicious and the most expensive one cost 98 pesos. Desserts were a bit on the pricey side but they also are really good and the coffee beans they use come straight from Oaxaca.

Ok, first pic is a 'Chile en Nogada' which basically is a large chile, roasted and filled with prepared ground meat. Garnished with a tomato sauce and white chestnut sauce. This was my mom's dish, she loves this kind of chile.

This was my sister's dish, the Tikin-Xic fish is absolutely delicious, covered with adobo and filled with black beans, this fish has fried tortilla, tomatoes, avocado and fried banana wedges as garnish.

Going to my dad, here's a beautiful salmon, bathed in another type of adobo, this had steamed vegetables and creamed spinach, the plate also had a balsamic reduction. It also tasted niceeee, and the salmon was not over cooked, just delicious.

And here's my dish, fried ravioli filled with duck meat covered with mole. I have to admit that the duck lacked a bit of salt and the mole needed a tid-bit more chocolate, but then again, I like my mole on the sweet side so it was obvious that it wasn't just the way I like it. I had a glass of jamaica with my dish and it was great, very refreshing and cool.

Ok, now we'll head on to desserts, my all times favorite. I can tell you that I could fall in love with a guy who'd take me to a place just to have a nice dessert and tea... This cake here is filled with milk and it's soft and delicious. The raspberry sauce that garnished it was also really great and the right accent for the sweetness of the cake.

Ok, here's a guanabana mousse, the guanabana is a tropical fruit that looks rather odd for many people, it's green and covered with lumps, but it has a nice fresh and soft taste. It was a very light mousse so we found it really nice, plus it looks beautiful.

Aaaand, this is my dessert: soft centered chocolate torte, it was a really delicious and sinful warm chocolate cake with a smooth and velvet melting center. It was really strong! And don't be fooled by the ice-cream ball, that's no vanilla flavour, oh no, thats a gorgonzola cheese ice-cream!
To be honest, this is the first time I actually get to try the chocolate/strong cheese combo many gourmets and tv shows talk about as heavenly creations and I have to admit that it was a bit too much to my palate. I think that one of the main reasons is because I simply don't like strong cheese, and even though we're talking chocolate here... Anyway, I accepted the challenge and finished it all. The cake was of course the best part and many times I saw a spoon or two stealing bits of my cake. hehehe

Recovery and restaurants

Well, it seems I'm getting over my last episode of depression, yay me!
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And here I am to show you some new food pics, they are from a very nice place called Nube Siete, which is located in a recently opened museum, which is the MUAC. This is a very interesting museum where a diversity of pieces are blended toghether, most of times they have a singularity which puts them toghether, like same author or same theme. We were not able to visit the whole place because of time but what we saw was pretty interesting.

There was a small but nice selection of fresh juices, one was a mix of green plants, oranges and pineapples, I liked it but it lacked a bit of sweetness.

We arrived at breakfast time, but we nearly missed it, since it was around 12:00 o'clock. It was a really nice place to go, the eating area is located outside the museum yet it is covered by the building's floor. This is because the building is located on an area that has different heights. It was a very hot day outside but as we were in the shadow it was nice and the soft breeze was relaxing.

This is my plate, a truly large mushroom omelette, it had some baked potatoes as garnish and I loved it! I ate he whole thing! In the end I thought my tummy was gonna burst but it was worth it. It's been a while since I tasted such great omelettes.

This is Marianita's plate, delicious hot cakes made with wholegrain flour. They tasted pretty nice if you ask me, and they had a delicious strawberry marmalade (which is not shown) to go with them. She only got to eat two of them so I was the lucky one to have the last.
...And yes, I even devoured a piece of hotcake after that huge omelette, you can tell how tasty everything was by that.

This was my dad's omelette, it had ham and cheese inside and tasted just as great as mine. But it lacked a bit of salt... Which is weird because ham tends to have an enough amount of salt.

Last but not least was my mom's plate. It's sunny-side-up eggs covered in guajillo sauce. Accompanied by smashed beans. A typical mexican dish which was delicious.

Oh and if you were wondering what is a guajillo, it's what we call a 'chile'. Here in Mexico we have loads of different chiles. Guajillo is a chile that is commonly left to dry. There are two ways of preparing them for whichever thing one wants to do and that is to toast it and then put it into hot water. Or just putting it in hot water.
It has a nice smoked taste and is really good. And here's a pic of it (beware, it's pretty large):