buried mirror: latest reflections

Yucatan Living’s nominations for the best fine dining around Merida are in. And the candidates are:

• Casa de Piedra at Hacienda Xcanatun
• Nectar Restaurant
• Trotters Restaurant
• Hacienda Santa Rosa
• Hacienda Temozon Sur

Read about the nominees and vote for your favorite at Yucatan Living.

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At Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo, Rudy Giron has posted about the Bagel Barn, which offers coffee, bagels, and free WiFi.

How times have changed. When I was teaching in Guate — there was no internet, so don’t even think about WiFi — we once got so desperate for bagels (nowhere to be found in the entire country) that we tried cooking our own. As I recall you have to drop the dough into boiling water. My colleague Marvin Schwartz pronounced the result decent. “But,” he concluded, “they aren’t bagels.”