Not Coconut

Did you know...

That "quinoa" is not pronounced like "kee-NO-ah" but rather "keen-WAH"?

I did not, until I ordered it at Beleza. I like to think I accepted my humbling gracefully.

If you are an Atlantan, I highly recommend their cocktails -- the Beleza caipirinha and the Pisco Flower for me, which is "Inca Gold Pisco, St. Germaine Elderflower Liquor, Lemon." Delicious. Mark said it tasted like "dairy" because it was smooth and cold, and also "nutty." But Mark is the same person who didn't figure out his coconut rava masala dosai at Udipi had coconut until pretty much the end of the meal. The food at Beleza was less to my liking -- I swear my ceviche and my quinoa tasted like the same thing, and the tuna crudo was overly salty. The shrimp mocueqa I could eat every day, though.

The music was a bit loud for my taste, but I liked watching the crowd. Lots of cool black girls who were much more stylish than I, and then the kind of men who let the door shut in your face instead of holding it for you.