Maestro's

Maestro's is a gelato cafe on Center St. - have I mentioned that I really like the atmosphere of downtown Provo? :) Anyways, I've been wanting to try out this place for awhile. We finally went and got a crepe there. We got the crepe with nutella and strawberries filling, with chocolate chip gelato on top. They actually gave us the wrong gelato at first, but we got that ironed out. Anyways, it was really good, but not anything special compared to the crepes we make at home. It was about $8 and was plenty of dessert for us, but not worth the money when we can make pretty much the same thing ourselves. And honestly, I can't tell a huge difference between gelato and ice cream. So make a crepe, slap some nutella on it, and put a scoop of your favorite ice cream on top. And you'll have one of the best desserts ever (for a fraction of the price of this place!)

Spicy Corea

Last weekend Jack and I tried out Spicy Korea (formerly Touch of Seoul) on University Ave. in Provo (near Center Street). This is me with KimPop (like California Roll sushi). I love this stuff. It was really good here, as was all our food.

Jack eating Bibing Pop. It's some sort of rice/egg/veggie dish, and it was good (but not my favorite Korean food). I love how Korean restaurants always bring you out these complimentary side dishes. They gave us kimchee, seasoned potatoes, Korean pizza, bean sprouts, some sort of lettuce and kimchee thing, and some cucumber thing. I love the seasoned potatoes! We also got Mandu. It's basically a type of dumpling, and I really liked it.

We usually go to SamHawk for Korean food, but I think this place has won us over. The food was great, atmosphere was great, and the service was awesome. Next time we go back we'll have to try their Bulgogi (soooo goood) and Pot Bing Su (some sort of bean ice cream thing that Jack says is really good). I love Korean food, and I would recommend this place to everyone!

El Salvadorian Restaurant

There's this great El Salvadorian Restaurant on Center St. in Provo (and really I think that's the name of it). My sister and her husband introduced us to it, and we ate there again just a few weeks ago. It's great because you can get such good food for a cheap price.

My favorite is the pork and cheese papusa. Yum! It's a great corn tortilla filled with...pork and cheese of course! It's only like $1.60, and you could eat two and be filled. They also have something similar to an empanada (I think they call it a pastelito). It's really good, but a little heavy.

When we went last time, we got a few papusas (always a good idea), a chicken tamale which was good, and a carne asada steak dinner. We'd never had the carne asada before, and I thought the flavoring was really good. The meat was a little tough and dry, but still good. The papusas are still my favorite!

In summary: great value, good food (great papusas)