Dinner at "Los Girasoles"

Because I had done some cooking, we ate in the apartment more than usual last weekend.  However, after visiting the handicraft exhibit on Saturday, I suggested that we eat out.  We went to a place that we had not visited in quite a while... a restaurant called "Los Girasoles" (The Sunflowers).  It is located on Plaza Tolsá in the Centro Histórico.  It's a somewhat expensive restaurant although the prices are not ridiculously outrageous.

(I actually took this photo after our dinner in the early evening.)

We both ordered the same thing.  We began with pistachio soup.

The presentation was very pretty.  That's an "obleo" (like a communion wafer) floating in the soup.  It is decorated with the restaurant's name and a picture of sunflowers.

For our main course, we both ordered chicken in peanut sauce.  So, I guess you could say that we had a very "nutty", but tasty dinner.

Since we were seated on the upper floor of the restaurant, we had a nice view of the Plaza Tolsá below us.  The building to the right is the National Museum of Art, and to the left is a late 18th century colonial building that was the School of Mining and which now belongs to the School of Engineering of the National University of Mexico.  In the center of the plaza is the equestrian statue of King Charles IV of Spain, commonly known as "El Caballito" (The Little Horse).  It was done in 1803 by the Spanish-born sculptor and architect Manuel Tolsá.

From a different window, you can see the side of the old School of Mining and poking up above it, the 20th century Latin American Tower.