CONNECTIONS October 2016 issue 17 The Presidency

CONNECTIONS Issue # 17
THE NEW PLAYER One & Only
Palmilla Things will change radically
when the Palmilla reopens this coming
February as the 172-room One & Only
Palmilla. So what does an $80 million
makeover from legendary hotelier Sol
Kerzner get you?Adam Tihany
designing a sea-foam fantasy for
Charlie Trotter's C Restaurant, which
will have an ambitious Caribbean-
Mexican fusion menu. Kerzner has also
tempted away Edward Steiner, the
managing director who helped put Las
Ventanas on every Hollywood Palm
Pilot. Expect greatness. Km 7.5
Carretera Transpeninsular, San José;
52-624/146-7000 or 800/637-
2226; www.oneandonlypalmilla.com;
doubles from $425.
Where to Eat
The only Spanish word you need to
learn to dine well in Baja
is mariscos (seafood). With fish
straight from the bountiful Gorda
Banks, most Los Cabos restaurants
resist Food Network flourishes:
tortillas are hot off the griddle, ,
the mole is ground by hand, and the
salsa contains locally grown chiles.
Look for outstanding chiles rellenos at
trailer-park palapas (thatched-roof
huts); snack on fried pork rinds from a
street cart in San José; or sip cold
coconut milk at a roadside Cocos Fríos
truck. Of course, if your napkins have
to be Frette rather than paper, Los
Cabos has a parallel culinary universe,
in which a coterie of New Mex chefs
are already sharpening their knives for
the day Charlie Trotter comes to town.
TACO BELLES Taquería
Rossy The chairs are plastic; so are
the blue-and-white-checked
tablecloths. Both locals and snowbirds
perch here for succulent, lightly
battered shrimp and scallops folded
inside handmade flour or corn
tortillas. The salad bar is loaded with a
multitude of salsas, roasted chiles, lime
wedges, and other fixin's, but all you
really need is a bottle of hot sauce and
a Corona. Manuel Doblado and Hwy.
1, San José; 52-624/142-6755; lunch
for two $10.
Carnitas El Michoacáno Around
the corner from Rossy's, this humble
taquería specializes in juicy pork tacos.
Atkins dieters ask for puro carne;
others go whole hog with gorgeously
greasy costillas (ribs). Calle Pescador y
Panga, San José; 52-624/146-9848;
lunch for two $12.
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