Cafe de San Agustin
This is a wonderful spot for breakfast! The specialty here is hand made - the old fashioned way! - churros con chocolate. Churros are long thin falky fried
pastries dusted with sugar. They are dipped in thick molten chocolate, and you can decide between three different kinds. The difference is the amount of sweetness in the chocolate. I went for the Chocolate Espanola, which was the least sweet, and more of a dark chocolate. As we were there bright and early, we got to watch the churros preparations, and it was really cool to see the guys behind the counter stirring the dough with huge wooden sticks. We also had fruit and yogurt here, and coffee and tea juice, and the entire bill for 2, here, was $208 pesos, or less than twenty dollars. This is a nice treat, and a great pick me up after a late night….
A Fan of Churros? Want to learn how to make your own? Click here.
So in many of my culinary searches about San Miguel this particular restaurant comes up. They re known for their chiles en nogada frios: marinated poblano chilies filled with chopped beef, pecans, almonds, and dried fruits and topped with cream sauce and a spray of pomegranate seeds. I didn’t have these, actually, as we had snacked a little too heavily on chips and guacamole at La Pamplonada, the palce where we will have the readings. However, I did have Quesadillas de Flor de Calabzas - quesadillas with zucchini flowers, which were about 70 pesos (between 5 and 6 dollars). I thought they were awfully heavy on the cheese (but what did I expect?) and actually a little bland. With a little salsa picante, though, they were filling and good. Also, the sopa azteca, known to us gringos as tortilla soup, was quite good, although again, definitely a bit on the cheesy side. By far the culinary winner was the cerdo in chile negra - pork in a dark sauce, similar to mole, and apples. It tasted surprisingly light, and the combination of the apples and the mole were delicious. I would highly recommend this dish…. You can get it for 110 pesos, which s about 9 dollars US. Bugambilia is a bit on the pricey side, for San Miguel, but the ambiance makes it worthwhile. There was live music playing quietly throughout our meal, which was served in a lovely courtyard, centered around a large and colorful bougainvillea plant…. I would definitely go there again, and I can’t wait to try the chiles en nogada….
Henry Griffin, screenwriting professor for San Miguel this summer, sent me 
pavilions, sculptures, and spiral stairways - built adjacent to a series of waterfalls.” All of which I found highly intriguing. Might be fun to go visit this place, built by Edward James, an English surrealist and eccentric, who “bankrolled the publications of poems by John Betjeman, and supported Dylan Thomas for awhile” as well as working with artists like Salvador Dali. Apparently, Las Pozas was supposed to be his recreation of the Garden of Eden, and was, at one time, filled with orchids and exotic flowers in addition to the sculpture. James died in 1984, and the palce has been left to wither away for much of that time, although now, it seems, efforts to preserve and revive it are underway. Las Pozas is easily reached from 
Hola San Miguelers! So, as I was browsing around looking for some places to go for myself before and after the program, I found this page on about.com I thought you all might be interested in looking at, called 
Bomb
and his fiancee. Of the two articles, I like this one better. This one also made me hungry talking about some of the food - I am going down to San Miguel (I think) later this month, and I will be sure to do my best to rate as many more restaurants as I can!
