Riobamba: Where to eat

I have to confess that despite trying to be open minded, i have been always looking for restaurants that have a european look and feel to them, because thats what i know and trust! I guess from my life experience to date i have just come to expect poor service where ever i go, unless its expensivly decorated and charging you for it.

im slowly learning where you get the value in ecuador. you have to go to the places that do "ecuadorian food"

going by what we get at home this littel place looks like a dive, with its plastic chairs , no written menu and not much in the line of decoration. but who needs decoration anyway? this is about food. and the food and service in these places is spot on!


Seco de Pollo
plate of Rice with leg of chicken in some sauce, a bread bun with somthing similar to mozarella cheese. a pint of freshly made fruit juice with banana or pineapple or whatevers available, and a cup of coffee! not bad for $1.50

interesting how countries differ when it comes to coffee.

here they basically give you a cup of hot water or hot milk depending on what you want. and then they give you a jar of coffee and a bowl of sugar and you make it yourself.hehe
i have to say though , that i find this a refreshing break from the growing worldwide trend of snooty names like "frapuchino" or whatever.