Ah yes, a new city and a new opportunity to seek out Mexican food in a foreign land. But things did not work out in Sofia, Bulgaria and perhaps that was for the best?
In Search Of Mexican Food In Sofia, Bulgaria
For reasons that I can neither fully explain nor justify, I like to seek out Mexican food wherever I am in the world, even though I know it is probably going to be pricey and bad (as I recently found in Malmo, Sweden). Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised, though, as I recently was in Istanbul, Turkey.
I was sitting in my hotel room working and decided around 9:15 pm to head out to a Mexican takeaway place called Senior Burrito, which apparently is a chain in Bulgaria. The walk from my hotel to the Triaditsa District took about 30 minutes.
When I arrived, at 9:45 pm, I walked into the resturant to order food. The door was unlocked and there was a guy cleaning things up inside behind the counter.
Too late, I was told. The guy said, “Closed. Closed. Closed.”
Hmm…15 minutes early and his girlfriend was sitting inside the restaurant waiting for him…
My Bulgarian is not good enough to argue (it’s not good enough for anything) and maybe the guy was doing me a favor.
Down the road, there was a crowded place called Hans & Gretel that looked a bit like an amusement park (apparently, it is a British ice cream chain), but I wanted something more than ice cream or waffles.
Sofia is full of restaurants and most have covered tents outside that are for all intents indoors, but probably constructed to comply with smoking laws that prohibit smoking in “real” buildings.
But I don’t like eating alone in a restaurant.
I passed a Döner Kebap place, but decided I’d just go back to the hotel since I had such a good meal there the previous evening.
Sadly, I got to the hotel restaurant at 10:20 pm (The Revolutionary Dining Room) and was told the kitchen had already closed…even though the resturant was open until 11:00 pm.
So I went back upstairs and ordered room service…
So much for Mexican food in Sofia…
Perhaps just as well. I’m not sure I’d trust the senior taco over the junior taco.
Oops, senior burrito that is.
Next time you go to Mexico, you should try some Bulgarian food there. I think it will be a similar experience you would have had trying Mexican food in Bulgaria.
@Santastico … +1 . Brazil is the home of Brazil nuts , which happens to be the tallest tree in the Amazon , and only the sharp-tooth agouti can gnaw into the nut and shell the nuts .
Are there many Turkish people in Bulgaria? If so the kebab would have been my choice!
I still regret not visiting the Chi-Chi’s near the Bourse in central Brussels before it closed, just to be able to say that I did. While I’m sure it was awful, Nutella probably goes well with sopapillas.
I wonder if it has anything to do with Yu-Mex music’s popularity in the former Yugoslavia? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Mex or the recent episode of The Omnibus on it (https://www.omnibusproject.com/581).
FWIW, I, too, like to sample Mexican food whilst on other continents.
+1
I ate at “The Hungry Mexican” in Dublin and found the food amazing. I would return. It was the name that caught my attention and brought me inside. It is in a rough part of town with lots of people congregating outside waiting to catch the buses.
You should give the hungry Mexican a change the next time you are in downtown Dublin.
Probably a good thing your quest came up empty. A senor burrito is liable to say adios very quickly.