The moral of the story is "Watch out for chicken in general"

Fellas:

I was out and about on Friday with a chica and we went to lunch at La Esquina de Buenos Aires.

This was the only food I ate that day. We ordered beef and chicken empanadas to start. I ate more of the chicken and her more of the beef. Later, we had the lomito con salsa porcini and a nice malbec.

I always eat there every time I am in SJO, and have never had a problem......

Eight hours later, at Club Gramis, I was hanging with my chica and started feeling bad. In the cab back to Dunn Inn, she wanted to go to another club...I mustered my strength and said "OK"....two blocks later, in front of the DR, I was puking my guts out. I told the freaked out cabbie to not worry, all the spew landed on the street, and none in the cab. We got back to Dunn Inn, and I tipped the cabbie double the fare if he wanted to go take it to wash.

Anyway, between trips to the toilet, and being wrapped like a mummy all night with a horrible fever, Melitza stuck with me, rubbing me down with cold, wet towels (I hated that shit...)

The moral of the story is "Watch out for chicken in general" If it tastes sort of funny, leave it alone. I will go back to La Esquina, but I won't order the empanadas.

CH

I wasn't going to say anything, but since someone else has brought it up, I thought I'd better mention my experience at La Esquina de Buenos Aires. One evening of the first week of February, I ate here. I had the beef kabob, along with the waffle potatoes and a salad. Two hours later, I had a high fever, chills, stomach cramps and diarrhea. The fever broke during the night, but the diarrhea lasted for several days. I had the stomach cramps for over a week. I can only assume that the illness came from this restaurant.....my guess, it was from the salad.

In all fairness....this was the first time I ever had a problem at this restaurant. I eat there a lot. I really like the food, the people and the place.

I had a similar experience at JR's Ribs several years ago. I think it was the cole slaw that caused it there.

I need to post something about this before Californicationdude sees this and loses it:

Why didn't you take Diacort??????

Six of us ate ther on 9/29 and had a great meal. The food and service was excellent.