Sabor Latino or Ecuadorian (I hope that's right) food in Minneapolis.



If there's one thing that I like almost as much as snuggling up in bed on a rainy night and reading myself silly, it's trying out new food and cuisines. I was driving about in Minneapolis when I saw what promised to be quite the treat; it was a storefront that proclaimed "Sabor Latino" and a sign helpfully pointed out "Ecuadorian Food." Ecuadorian food! Hmmm, I've never tried that before. As a matter of fact, I had NO idea about what to even expect from Ecuadorian food. So I pulled into the fenced parking lot and made my way into said establishment.

I have the bad habit of entering restaurants where it's painfully apparent that I'm not "one of them." You know the type where everyone stops eating/talking/yelling on the phone in an alien language and looks at you. But I've entered enough strange places to not care about it. So the waitress asks me if it's just me, and I say yes, and she then escorts me to a table for 6.

I open the menu and a lot of the items seem to be seafood; I just love seafood so I was very, very happy! I also noticed that the menu was predominantly in Spanish with just a couple of words in English. This made it all the more exciting.

I ordered something that had the English words "fried Bass" and "spicy salsa" against it, along with a freshly squeezed raspberry juice.



The food was delicious, the spicy salsa was really spicy (just the way I like it), and the raspberry juice was sweet enough to give me a sugar high.

My only regret is that I don't know any Spanish, beyond "Muchos Gracias" and a few numbers.