Lunching at 212 Lounge & Restaurant | Tenderloin al Carpaccio :P

in Foodies Bee Hive2 years ago (edited)

Hi, Foodies in the Hive!

2024 has started a bit slow or so I feel. My mornings, however, are short; in the blink of an eye, it's lunchtime. Time distortion? Perhaps. We're all mad here.

Anyway, good food, you may agree, is exceptionally good to recover sanity and keep happiness, and more if you don't have to cook or do the dishes 😂. Long story short, I often find eating out therapeutic.

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I usually don't order pasta at a restaurant, but cartoccio is really good here at 212 (you can check the links for their location & IG).

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I couldn't miss ordering my favorite one with tenderloin. It was the perfect time as it was noon; when we come here, it's usually for dinner, not the best moment to eat a huge meal like this.

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Besides, this restaurant has an extra charm during the day, as you can rest from the intense sun outside, and regain your strength while the soft combination of light and shadow cradles you in a rather intimate but still well-lit atmosphere--not dark, but still like a fantasy rabbit hole 🙃

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As usual, they bring some fried pita bread nachos with a green dip along with the menu.

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Here, take a look at the menu and prices:

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I believe that the chef's suggestions ☝️ should be intelligently considered by us customers. You'll see, usually, these suggestions are dishes that are made with ingredients that are no longer, shall we say, completely fresh. Sometimes, this means that you can get a good dish for comparatively less money. But a smart move is to make sure you order something that doesn't require complete freshness of ingredients to be just as perfect and delicious. Or it's also valid that you order something that requires very fresh ingredients, so the chef wants these ingredients to be used up the same day; in the latter case, we should choose dishes that we know, so that we can judge whether we have been served food as good as we expected.

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Above you can see that my huge tenderloin cartoccio was $12. That's actually a wonderful price if you compare it to what you pay in other restaurants for half the food.

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Sushi is also good here as they specialized in seafood.

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Sushi rolls are of a good size, and ingredients always taste super fresh.

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It was my sister's treat. We got three orders of cartoccio, two with octopus and mine with tenderloin,

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plus one order of sauteed tenderloin with veggies over mashed potatoes.

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Al Cartoccio

In Italian cuisine, cooking al cartoccio means you bake your food wrapped in foil. Traditionally, in a restaurant, it's a pasta dish; in Venezuela, this pasta is linguine more often than spaghetti.

Octopus cartoccio was huge and better presented than mine. It's usually that way, as octopus pieces look like artistic figures, like arabesques, whereas beef chunks on the plate look like, well, beef chunks.

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But let me tell you these beef chunks were tender and super delicious.

In addition to tenderloin, the sauce had vegetables and mushrooms, and I could taste the wine in the white sauce that permeated the good amount of linguini. The chef was quite generous with the parmesan cheese as well. It was really, really good all in all.

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Portions at 212 are big. In fact, none of us could finish their food because it was too much. We had some cocktails, so._

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The market is extremely competitive in Lechería city. Many restaurants open today and close the following month. The explanation is complex, going through social excision, a minority of people with capital to invest in new businesses contrasting with the lack of good jobs and insufficient salaries for the majority (just my case, since I couldn't dine out more than once a month and this would depend on how much I could spend that month). I believe 212 has stood on its feet because it offers excellent quality at prices that while not cheap, are affordable for many. So people who can afford it, keep coming back here--much more often than I do, I guess 🙈

Summing up, I'd said that if you're ever in town, you should come here and try whatever you like on the menu. I recommend their tenderloin al cartoccio (cartoccio de lomito) without a doubt.

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All text and images are my own. I have taken the pictures with my Redmi 9T cell phone. And if any GIFs here, I've used GIPHY for all them.

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Thank you so much for your visit :)

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It looks like a beautiful place to eat. Although I find it a bit odd seeing it coming wrapped in foil when dining in. Usually they only do that with take out. 😆

@tipu curate 4

It is! Well, now that you say so... 😂 it's not the most elegant service on your table, but it's so delicious. And when you unwrap it, you can see the steam coming up, like a mist.. and the smell, oh! Hahahah. You have to try it.

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Wow this is really a fancy restaurant also the food is delicious everything

Hopefully the beginning of this year is okay mother there

The place is quite nice and food is also really good. I wish you an excellent year, dear @aera8 🥰

Thank you very much for your prayers mother💜

I have never seen any of these dishes before but I’m very sure it will taste nice
I wish I could get it here though

Food al cartoccio has a lot of flavor. Here the beef was tender and the linguine,al dente. The cooks know what they're doing. This is one of the cooking methods I haven't tried myself yet. Hopefully soon.

Thank you so much for dropping by! ❤️

Thanks for sharing your experience here. I quite agree. Good food is important for maintaining a state of happiness and wellbeing.

Good food nourishes body and soul. I'd wish it nourished my soul more than my belly, haha. Thank you so much for dropping by 😁❤️

This must really be a fancy restaurant actually worth visiting and exploring around

It's a little fancy, but you may visit it while wearing shorts and a t-shirt 😁

The 212 restaurant seems a good option, especially because they serve good portions at affordable prices.

I have never tried cartoccio. It looks really delicious.🤤🤤

Glad you enjoyed a beautiful evening with your family.❤️

I like it when they serve good portions. We're not French, so we would probably eat a single main dish 😁

I'm sure cartoccio made by Zu will taste magnifique!

Thank you so much for your nice words 😁❤️