"everyone who really likes to eat realizes that they cannot compare all culinary experiences to the same criteria. they go to the dorchester for decades, intrica, silver service and a feeling of lots of money well spent; they go to le mercury for atmosphere, simple French dug, and a feeling of joy to change from £20. el rincon quiteno is all of the following: authentic, tasty, friendly, inescapable, peculiar, institutional, (quite) cheap, unmistakable, domestic, addictive, changeable, disorganized. if I had this thing in an hour at nando, I would go. but it’s not nando’s, it’s not the dorchester, it’s not even le mercury it’s in this category that is so rare that they also need to search it in the English capital. it is small, independent, domestic spun, immediate, niche, immigrants cook. I used to live on the holloway road to explain a bias against el rincon. but it characterizes everything that makes this area, what it is, the colorfully proud affirmation of its South American (ecuadorean) rooted over any wall, just punctured by arsenal fc. there is a counterplace serving chickens and cattle emaniada beside bacon-sarnies. it is the Nord-London-Einwanderer experience, which is small in iconography and in food. over five years of regular return there, with family, friends, with big groups and occasionally only on my own, the menu has changed only a little. the food is essentially ecuadorean, but there are Argentine (parrillada) and Bolivian (pork fricassee) inclusions and my better traveled friends who know South America and South America food were always enchanted by authenticity. all meat dishes are excellent, and tend to be big too. the parrillada is even a good business for two, but it is a good meat. I had also made bream brilliant there, and a stock option that they do well are the sorts of aroz. for me, however, the extreme triumph at el rincon is the series of suppen. the friicassee is above all the only tasty dish I've ever eaten, and I really mean that. as a small local restaurant that cooks to home, and with fricassee is a dish that takes a long time to prepare, they don't always have it available, so I complained: if it is available, they do themselves a fallen and damn well order it immediately. it consists of a salty, paprika loaded broth with a large sponge in it and huge mais. some of the waiting employees can hardly speak English. which indicates that a large part of the customers does not, and what does that say? If the Spanish part of North London protects this place, it is the next thing they bring to the right. not that everyone wants the real thing, or that the real thing in and of itself the best way to eat, but for all bleedings about wahaca's street food rights, they are looking for Mexican customers and wondering what they are doing. if they want to eat South American in london, they tend to get Rodizio-style places, expensive steak houses and others. so they should celebrate el rincon to be exactly the triumphant that it deserves, welcoming, unique and above all very good eating. it will be like no other meal they have this year, and they will change from their £20 again."
