This is round I for the collaborative promotional series promotion National Ceviche Day between My Table and Pisco Pórton. For more information, click here.
LATIN BITES
Delicious and authentic Latin bites are all that this handsome South American restaurant serves. The toque behind Latin Bites — chef Roberto Castre, his sister Rita Castre and her husband, Carlos Ramos — are all Peruvian born. In honor of their heritage, Latin Bites also has a pisco bar and terrace where they serve pisco-based cocktails and pisco flights. Anticipating the celebration of National Ceviche Day on June 28, Latin Bites is offering Cebiche de Mora (a tuna and scallop ceviche over a bright pink mulberry leche de tigre) and a special lychee and Portón cocktail called The Rose Petal throughout the month of June.
Latin Bites, 5709 Woodway Drive.
PHILIPPE Restaurant + Lounge
If pink is a little too feminine for your palate, check out the Mano á Mano at Philippe: pisco Portón, lemon and lime juice, cilantro, homemade tomato juice and Mexican beer make this a variation on the Michelada. To accompany it, try Philippe’s featured shrimp ceviche, which tosses shrimp with lemon and lime juice, cilantro, espelette (a French chili pepper), pickled onions and pisco Pórton and is served with fried green tomatoes. You’ll get a little bit of tanginess and a smidge of heat from the ceviche … that Mano á Mano might come in handy.
Philippe Restaurant + Lounge, 1800 Post Oak Blvd.
Spaniards are famous for their devotion to libations — and they are responsible for the inception of pisco. Spanish settlers in the New World created the first pisco as a replacement for orujo, the Spanish brandy, because importing it was costing them quite a bit of coin and time, and the settlers were certainly in need of spirits. There’s a debate as to whether it was originally developed in Chile or in Peru. One theory leans towards Peru, as there is a Pisco, Peru, in the Pisco Valley, as well as the river Pisco. Another theory claims that cultures up and down the Pacific coast of the Americas used the word pisco for bird, and some folks argue that pisco was the common term in the same region for a mud jar. Any way you look at it, the Spaniards are to thank.
Spanish restaurant 1252 Tapas is showcasing the Pisco Passion for the month of June: pisco Portón, St. Germain, agave nectar and pineapple juice share the same sunny profile of the Ceviche 1252, which also uses pineapple along with whitefish, red onion, cilantro, lime juice, jalepeno and a splash of Piscó.
1252 Tapas Bar Click here for all three locations