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Cordoba Nights
 203 Cuba Street, Wellington384 3334
Good Parts: All beef, all the time. Funny manager
Bad Parts: Not sure if the manager was really confused about who ordered what. Menu theatre is delightfully scary.
Entrée: Empada $3.50
Main: Bife Argentino $24.50 Dessert: Budin De Por $8.00
Rating: 74%
The humble cow sits high in the regard of many Men, both as a symbol of patient virtue and as a source of both dairy products and delicious meat. To have all these aspects rolled into one pleasant beast is indeed a happy twist of fate. Now many nations enjoy eating beef, but none I’d wager more than Argentina or, as it is often known, "The Land of Beef". With this in mind I was indeed happy when invited to Cordoba (Cordoba Nights), an Argentinean restaurant on upper Cuba St for dinner.
I like to pretend to myself that I have cosmopolitan taste in restaurants, and dine frequently at places outside the ordinary just to maintain this precious image to all and sundry. So it was with a shameful joy in my heart that I ordered plain beef dishes at Cordoba. Not for me the sullen pleasures of seafood, lamb or some sort of happy chicken. No, only beef should be ordered while eating Argentinean. To do otherwise is the bad kind of heresy, and who knows, maybe the manager would cut you.
For the entrée I had the Empada, which was a minced beef pastry parcel, which while small, was full of flavour. Sort of like a traditional meat pie without gravy or any clear up-down orientation. I chose the Bife Argentino, well done, for the main, also known as some sort of steak. The meat was full of flavour but a little under done, but not in a fatal way. The steak was served with a mashed potato base which was the real stand out performer of the dish. The preparation of mashed potato is a sacred trust and the faceless chef out back discharged this fully.
For dessert I had the Rudin De Por, which is a type of sponge with chilled cream, or so my drunken notes say. Suffice to say it was fantastic, and shared similarities with the humble trifle. I heartily recommend it. If you like sponge and/or trifle that is.
Overall I enjoyed my experience at Cordoba Nights, the food was tasty, the staff humorous and the menu morally sound. I would recommend it to anyone seeking a new interpretation of traditional fare.
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