For a variation on a theme of Latin
American food, visit La Duni, which Esquire cited as one of the best 10
new restaurants in America.
Open for lunch and dinner weekdays but only breakfast and brunch on the
weekends, it is in the Knox-Henderson shopping area. Whether you go for
lunch. brunch or dinner, save room for dessert.
Pastry chef and co-owner Dunia Borga, whose nickname gave the restaurant
its own, doesn't jut make dessert, she creates culinary treasures, ranging
from Venezuelan chocolate truffle cake to a quatro leches cake, a notch
above the traditional tres leches. Don't worry about pronouncing pastel
de banano y trufa chocolate de Maracaibo, just love what she does with
bananas and chocolate.
Don't turn your nose up when you see "sandwiches" either. Think
citrus-marinated pork loin, with mojo, greens, avocado, pickled onions and
Manchego cheese in a home-baked popover instead.
Duni can easily feed two for less than $50. |