12 item tasting menu at Leo

Leo had a 12 item tasting menu. 13 if you count the bread with two different types of butter. The food was very imaginative and the plates were equally imaginative. The restaurant was in a cool little trendy neighborhood. Once we were inside it was warm and inviting. The waiters all had black jackets and black earpieces so we kind of felt like we had our own security team while we are having dinner.  I was able to add caiman and ants to my carnivore list at this restaurant. The plates were actually small enough that we were able to manage the entire menu. The Chef & sommelier are a mother-daughter team and we saw them at a couple points during the dinner.  Of course we had fun imagining stories for all the other diners. The restroom was unisex and was someone unique. It had steps leading down to it and a beautiful floral arrangement inside it.

Nice racks

Taking a look around

Real candles 

Vino and bubbly

Course one on the right is tuna with Stantonder ant's, long pepper and pigeon peas on the left is smoked rabbit encased in yuca with caribbean sour cream.

Camu camu filled with sun dried salted beef

River Lobster, mandarin lemon, pepper and coconut milk

Trout with Andean tubers, macadamia nuts, beans sprouts and sweet cucumber. The sauce tasted faintly of gazpacho

Pirachu fish and fermented yuca

A4 top of behind the wine racks

A red bean ball with dried mushrooms and a tasty sauce

Crab foamed up into a cake with crab meat on top and a paste made of vanilla

This is the caiman formed into a little ball. It has Amazonian pepper broth and Yuca.

Probably not this caiman.

This is the last dinner dish. It is a grilled pork rib which was so tender and tasty. It had barley both toasted and foamed and a little coating made out of black olives

Desert number one is pineapple and goat cheese with the tasty sauce. A very good palate cleanser

The second dessert was a dark chocolate with toasted sesame seeds a tropical fruit and some sort of licorice.

Two happy diners.

The upstairs was decorated with car headlights

Very eclectic bathroom

The finest floral display for a bathroom I've seen in a long long time

Off to dinner

We had a 7:00 reservation which is when they open the doors.  We left early in case of traffic, but there was none.  So we had some extra time after we got out of the taxi. The restaurant was half a block down a pedestrian walkway. Our driver wanted to make sure we were going to go to the right place and was going to walk us down there. We declined this assistance.   I took a couple pictures of some buildings downtown we had a nice little walk and it was a beautiful sunset.

We heard that a massage is good for altitude sickness so we thought better be safe than sorry

Looking up from the 9th floor

Looking down from the 9th floor

They say this tea is good for altitude sickness

So we thought better safe than sorry

 

looking to the west from our window

Looking to the east from our window

Sunset with the mountains in the background

Beautiful clouds in the sky

We got there early so we took a walk and saw some beautiful buildings

All lit up and nowhere to go

Advertising perhaps

The door to Leo is still closed

Hello Leo anyone home?

I guess because we're still early they're not open yet

We took a walk in the other direction and found a store that sold roses

And some fine roses they had

Most beautiful indeed

It's a Small World

Sitting in the club area as we were getting ready to proceed with our day, a nice gentleman inquired as to our whereabouts. We told him Miami which is just easier and he told us he was from a small town in North Carolina that Leslie had been to in her Virginia days. As we were talking to him another lady chimed in she was for from Fort Lauderdale.  She was actually from Deerfield Beach like we are actually from Hollywood and we got to laugh about how we tell people larger cities that they can recognize easier. It turns out that Nicole and Ashley are both teachers and traveling together. It is so great that you can have someone compatible to travel with and get to see the world. It's even better when you're a teacher and have enough time to devote to travel. I'm also including some pictures from our wild and crazy taxi drive back from the gold Museum.

On the drive back the taxi driver took some back roads and these were not the best of neighborhoods

Looking up the mountain to some beautiful buildings

Then not so beautiful

Large and impressive

Nicely framed bunch of flowers

A mural and a hangout spot right by our hotel

A gigantic Colombian flag

Roads on top of roads over top of ravines

Lots of brick buildings in our neighborhood

A church Downtown

Leslie Nicole and Ashley with three million dollars worth of smiles

 after the Gold Museum we ran into Nicole it is so fun to run into Kindred Spirits