Dinner with Friends

 

The Arizona Biltmore Hotel reopened in March and I finally got to see the changes that were made.  I joined three good friends for dinner at the new restaurant at the hotel called Renata's.  This new place calls it's food "modern Latin cuisine" and I have to say, the food was excellent!

My good friend David ordered one of the specialty drinks called Los Muertos. It's described as Serrano-infused blanco tequila, activated charcoal, agave, lime juice, black lava salt and smoke.  Sounds dangerous, doesn't it?  This is the way it was presented, under a glass dome filled with smoke.  I did taste it and it was pretty tasty.

I asked our waiter to take a photo of us after our meal but before they cleared the plates.  Just look at all those dishes.  The menu consists of a lot of shared dishes and if I remember correctly we ordered 5 different things but as you can see, that filled our table with dishes.  We had no trouble eating it all.

I snapped this photo as we were leaving.  The front of the hotel was nicely lit up and looking like the grand old place it has always been.  In some future posts, I'll show you some of the changes that were made over the one year that they were closed.