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This simple place seems transplanted from Ipanema or Rio Piedrasaa place to stop and eat while greeting friends and sipping rum. Whitewashed brick walls, oscillating fans, and a guayabera-clad wait staff who greet you with "Buena" almost make for a substitute vacation. The bar portion of the restaurant offers a drinker's tour of the rum beverages of the Hispanic world. Select a daiquiri worthy of Hemingway's Floridita, or a mojito, which adds a sprig of mint to lime juice and white rum. Brazil's habit-forming caipirinha, made as it should be with Pitu cachaASSa, is also available, as are appropriate wines and beers from Panama to Guatemala, including Bacardi's retake on Cuba's classic Hatuey.
Let your eyes salute the altars to Yemaya and Ochun at the entrance to Ideya, where bodega and bistro blend. Snag a table and indulge in one of the myriad riffs on a rum theme, or signal for a beer. Then let the light bacalaitos and the cheese-filled arepas take you south of the border. Some of the appetizers, like the camarones a la parilla, could be light entrées, while the cumin-scented pork loin is made for the hungrier folk. It's Soho, but you'll get out without having to... More »
Christmas was over, Easter was far away, I needed a break, but the calendar was too crunched for a weekend getaway. I'd just about despaired when Ideya materialized like a hibiscus in a puddle of slush. A neon-rimmed cooler that could have been... More »
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