Commercial Restaurant kitchen
You can't have a meal at the Commercial Restaurant anymore, but in the 1850's a restaurant operated out of what was once a family home called La Casa de Machado y Silvas. Over time, the house also functioned as a boarding house, a saloon, an art studio, a souvenir shop, a museum, and a church. According to the brochure the restaurant served simple meals dominated by meats. On the brochure, there is also a short recipe for beef tongue in hot sauce given by one of the descendants of the Machado family.
posted by at Friday, December 28, 2007
2 Comments:
Machado and Silva are also Portuguese names; I wonder where did the 19th century owners come from...
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Blogtrotter
We have many Portuguese immigrant families here in San Diego, especially in the Point Loma area, near the ocean. Portuguese and Italians were the foundation of the once-thriving tuna industry here (now vanished to places that tax it less). Many became millionaires -- the Da Silvas and Verissimos are two examples. I like to think (based on intuition only) that one reason the Portuguese are comfortable here is that we are on exactly the same latitude as the Azores.
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