Chloes 31st Birthday

📌 Another special destination for Chloe's birthday! We initially had the food tour planned but that was rescheduled until the 17th.

📌 We started the day with a tasty coffee of course, a delicious pastry and some sun. Lunch was scheduled at a beautiful restaurant serving all kinds of dishes from pre Columbian to traditional Oaxacan. One of the interesting highlights was a beef tortilla with grasshopper sauce, which had a umami soy sauce like flavour. We also enjoyed some more mole and we finished with a very rich but delicious banana and chocolate mousse.

📌 We found a beautiful cocktail bar overlooking the streets for a couple of sunset drinks before heading for dinner to a more creative restaurant, French/Oaxacan fusion. This was another hit, including delicious plantains and a cauliflower risotto with fish. The Oaxacan food scene was definitely delivering.

📌 The final part of Chloe's birthday was the next day, a food tour around the city. We started with delicious street food tacos, we visited Oaxacas largest market (where a few stalls featured on somebody feed phil) eating goat barbacoa soup (including an eyeball), some famous salsa beef tortillas, and some local drinks. One of the highlights on the 10 stop tour was pork Carnitas, the most flavoursome slow roasted pork with a delicious habereno salsa!! We finished the tour at a wine bar enjoying some local wines and beers. It was safe to say, Oaxaca is definitely up there on our all time travel destinations!Read more