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Impromptu

O, be and i were supposed to eat at Benny's Burritos* in the East Village tonight. That didn't work out so we decided to try a Salvadorean restaurant we used to frequent in Brooklyn back in the day. We rang up Ish who was in the area. Upon seating, we realized it had turned into an expensive Dominican restaurant (also serving $15.00 pasta dishes!) so we walked around and ended up a few blocks away at Calexico. It's a small Mexican-Californian restaurant on 5th Ave near Prospect Street in Park Slope. It's obviously one of the older places on 5th Ave, which now stands next to gourmet establishments and yoga centers.

be and i both ordered the $5.00 cheese flautas (sort of like a rolled up taco), which came with a generous serving of guacamole, sour cream and pinto beans. When our food arrived we were really surprised that a mere $5.00 got us 5 big flautas! They were quite good and very filling. O got the chimichangas and seemed to like them. All of us got Jarritos drinks and i thoroughly enjoyed my grapefruit one. It looked like it was just imported from Mexico as the nutritional value info was on a slapped-on sticker and the bottle was different than the others. I love grapefruit things in general but the Jarritos soda was a great find. It wasn't too sweet, very crisp and had a nice grapefruit aroma. I liked it more than Ting and GuS.

After dropping off O and picking up A$, the four of us shared chocolate fondue at The Chocolate Room. We requested extra dip materials which cost $2.00 more. We received 4 homemade marshmallows, a bunch of banana slices and good strawberries, some pineapple chunks and pound cake cubes. It was more than enough to satisfy our dessert cravings. The wine recommendation was sweet and light - a good match for the dark chocolate. be's pear soda was delicious but my single espresso (no more doubles for me!) was not as rich as i would've liked. Next time i'm going to try some of their chocolate pieces in the glass case. They had one that looked like a mini dark chocolate Washington Monument, which was filled with a chile and tangerine filling.

It was such a fun impromptu evening! (PS if you love love, it will work out in the end.)

*The last time we were at Benny's, i accidentally offered be a bite of my burrito. Upon chewing, he had the horrible realization there was chopped onion in it and proceeded to gag and suppress extreme vomiting. Sorry be! But be glad i didn't tell anyone about the infamous "burrito hand!"

posted by beXn @ 1:51 AM