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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Buenos Aires Meat

6/04/2007 at 3:07 PM
Tags: Embedded Travel Guides, Matt Chesterton, Buenos Aires Tours, Steakhouses (all tags)

Embedded Travel Guides: We are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then stealthy embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Matt Chesterton of Buenos Aires. You might remember this x-Time Out Travel star from HotelChatter's hit series The Thinkers' Guide to Staying in Buenos Aires.

Expect his guide to be dead on. Way back when, he told us that La Cabaña is not the best steakhouse in Argentina, and rather, a national embarrassment, the kind of place that in previous epochs of "our" history would have been firebombed--reserved for Steakhouse Suckers, his words, not ours. This is exactly the kind of unadulterated sentiment you can expect to find from this embed.

Argentines are obsessed with steak. Argentines eat their body weight in red meat every week. It's impossible to have a bad steak dinner in Buenos Aires. Porteños [as the inhabitants of BA are known] talk about meat to their psychiatrists.

All lies, of course. Argentines aren't obsessed with steak any more than the Chinese are obsessed with rice. It's a staple. Many eat it twice a day. Prime fillet steak is cheaper by weight in BA than tinned corned beef.

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Louisville Steakhouse Is OJ Free

5/09/2007 at 10:51 AM
Tags: Steakhouses, Kentucky Derby, OJ Simpson (all tags)

Jeff Ruby, owner of restaurants in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Belterra, Indiana, has become a bit of a cult hero in Kentucky. Not because he served a great steak, but instead because he refused to serve O.J. Simpson at his surf and turf joint on derby eve.

Ruby said he found Simpson in the Churchhill room of his "Jeff Ruby's Louisville" steakhouse and told Simpson, "I'm not serving you."

After telling Simpson to leave, he said the former NFL football star was "classy" about it, rounded up his party and left.

Then, Ruby said, he went into the Churchill Room to be sure they were gone and people at other tables started standing. "They all got up and gave me a standing ovation, started applauding."

Sounds like the Courier-Journal may want to re-think their Jeff Ruby's restaurant review:

They're not quite perfect for romantic dining tête-à-tête, but Jeff Ruby's Louisville, an outpost of an idiosyncratic mini-chain of steakhouses based in Cincinnati, doesn't pretend to offer an intimate experience.

So if you are are looking for a steakhouse in Louisville, that is sure to be O.J. free, look no further.

Related Stories:
· Jeff Ruby's [Official Site]
· Jeff Ruby Denies OJ Simpson Service [WCPO]

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