{"id":5159,"date":"2016-02-24T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:00:27","slug":"lunch-at-siqueff-merida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/lunch-at-siqueff-merida\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at Siqueff, M\u00e9rida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A city with a decent Middle Eastern restaurant is very desirable to me. So I was pretty excited to try out Siqueff<\/a>, M\u00e9rida’s “Lebanese” restaurant. I was so spoiled by Middle Eastern food in Durango<\/a> that I knew I couldn’t possibly get as lucky twice, but nothing ventured, nothing gained!<\/p>\n

Siqueff is really close to my apartment. My main cross street is 35 and I just have to walk three blocks, cross Paseo de Montejo, walk another two blocks, and I’m right there. It’s on the southeast corner of 60 and 35, if I have my directions correct. It’s in a lovely old house with an interior courtyard.<\/p>\n

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The restaurant has been around a very long time!<\/p>\n

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I got all of this as a free appetizer; salsa mexicana, commercial yellow corn chips (which I actually prefer to the usual house-made totopos), and a very tasty veggie thing that might have been ratatouille. Rather eclectic!<\/p>\n

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A limonada was just $25… and tasted suspiciously like lemonade! The flavour was a welcome surprise!<\/p>\n

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I ordered their “Arabic Platter” and had a choice of raw or cooked meat. Erm, cooked, please! And I also had a choice of Greek salad or tabbouleh. Tabbouleh, please! So here’s lunch:<\/p>\n

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It was good, especially the light on the bulgur, heavy on the mint, salad, but it was missing some hummus. Next time I come here, I will just order tabouleh, labne (thick yoghurt), and pita for a light meal. I ended up combining the pita and salsa mexicana!<\/p>\n

$210 with the tip felt like a fair price for the quality and portion of the food. Service was impeccable and I loved the ambiance. I’m not as excited about Siqueff as I was about El Amir, but I’m happy to know I have a teeny Middle Eastern oasis near\u00a0where I’ve chosen to live.<\/p>\n

Next up for today, I’m off to the cinema, 2.5KM away. We’ll see if I feel comfortable coming home from there after dark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A city with a decent Middle Eastern restaurant is very desirable to me. So I was pretty excited to try out Siqueff, M\u00e9rida’s “Lebanese” restaurant. I was so spoiled by Middle Eastern food in Durango that I knew I couldn’t possibly get as lucky twice, but nothing ventured, nothing gained! Siqueff is really close to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895,14,635,3,894],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-travel","category-yucatan","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}