La Guerra de Chimichurri rages on! We recently gave the spotlight to the Dominican Chimichurri, reviewing a number of “Chimi Trucks” in Uptown Manjátan. These trucks proved that in addition to dancing merengue and bachata, brewing Presidente and frying up some delicious platanos, Los Dominicanos pueden cocinar a pretty mean burger at 4am. However, if you are from anywhere other than La República Dominicana or Washington Heights, you probably don’t associate la palabra, “chimichurri” with Caribbean-inspired hamburguesas. Being equal-opportunity chimi-eaters, we’ve decided to show Argentina some love.

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Una cosa que El Gran Manzana isn’t lacking are plenty of late-night eats para su estómago vacío duespues de un noche bailando con sus amigos Don Barcardi, El Señor Cuervo y mucho modelos negras (¡y especiales!). The problem is do we really want to spend our precious time and hard-earned dinero on some bland, over-priced downtown diner? Especially when you’re already trying to rush back to your crib uptown to “jugar dominos” with that fine morenita (¡o morenito!) you just met at the Pacha Massive concert?

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By Anthony Q. Casasnovas & David D. Conklin

The year was 2002. My colleague David Conklin and I were fresh out of college (and ideas) and plodding our way through the trenches of the real world. I snagged a job as a senior editor for a start-up video game magazine and with Conklin’s help, tore-down and re-built that fledgling magazine – earning some minor-yet-admirable critical praise in the process. Before we had a chance to push on with another issue, we learned that our publisher/”editor-in-chief” had snorted away the rest of his finances and high-tailed it to Vegas. True story.

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