Te Matare, Ramirez Review

A Wonderful, One-Of-A-Kind Dining Experience

Posted by sweet_polly from Tampa, FL on 6/2/07
Our dinner at Te Matare Ramiriz was one of our favorite meals in Buenos Aires. It bills itself as an erotic Restaurant Afrodiasico, and it is just that. The restaurant is very dark and candlelit, and decorated in antique bordello red, with murals of nude men and women in sexual positions on the ceiling and erotic art on the walls. Soft, sexy music played throughout much of the evening, only stopping when a couple performed a somewhat sexually explicit (yet humorous) skit. There was no nudity, bu I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone who was not at least fairly open-minded and comfortable with sexual situations and innuendo. The erotica spills over onto the menu. The appetizers we shared were Sculptured In Moans and Sweat (tender lobster legs wrapped in slices of crispy smoked bacon, lying on soft potato and leek cream with crispy potato threads) and I Burned My Tongue With the Desire To Lick You (Asian chicken wing lollipops marinated in Tandouri sauce and wrapped in orly dough, served with magrebi couscous and syrupy reduction). My husbands entree was Childlike And Of Insolent Loquaciousness, She Emanated The Scent Of Her Secret Juices (virginal and aromatic little veal loin scallops in perverse goulash sauce, wrapped in a bamboo leaf and served with creamy spaetzle sprinkled with black sesame seeds), and I had Your Body Opens Like A Star While I Drink Your Sky (natural mini cannelloni au gratin made with spinach dough, stuffed with ricotta cheese, pine mushrooms and nuts, in asparagus cream with petit warm salad of broad beans and mushrooms lightly browned in olive oil). For dessert, we shared Lovers That Share One Another, a thick chocolate fondue with seasonal fruits, brownies, coconut brittle and fig and date truffles for dipping. The meal was romantic, the food sublime, and even with two bottles of wine we spent a grand total of around $125 US before tip.

Food: 4.0 Atmosphere: 5.0 Service: 5.0 Value: 5.0 RATING: 4.6