"This Restaurant Contains Explicit Pollo"

(note: Pollo means chicken)

Part of the rate we are paying for our rooms at the "world famous" Novotel, includes a breakfast and lunch buffet and a choice of dinner entrees from the "Teleperformance" menu. For anyone staying at the hotel for 1 week, this would be a REALLY sweet deal. However, when you're at the hotel for FIVE weeks, the food all starts to look and taste the same. That's probably because IT IS THE SAME!!

We lucked out during the first week of our stay. It seems that someone didn't get the memo about offering us a specific menu so we were ordering from the complete menu each night. We were eating pretty well. Steaks, Salmon, Desserts, whatever we wanted. I think the Manager came in and was balancing his books when he saw the damage we had done. So the 2nd week, we had the infamous abbreviated menu, no beef and no fish. All pollo all the time! Oh, and the famous Ensalada de Cesar con Pollo...Caesar Salad w/chicken.

We got so tired of the menu that we started eating the salad and then walking next door to the "wings place". The actual name is Los Alitas. They have a variety of buffalo wings to choose from as well as burgers and sandwiches and those sorts of things. It has become our reliable backup plan.

We had been to the restaurant several times prior but one night we went for Marin's birthday. The staff found out it was his birthday and the next thing we knew, we had a giant chicken dancing around our table and he wasn't just doing the chicken dance. He had all the moves. He was doing the "grind" on patrons of the restaurant. He picked up a young woman and started swinging her from hip to hip (do chickens have hips?). Then he cleared of the bar and laid on top of it with his feet straight up in the air. He moved like I have never seen a giant chicken move. Despite the shock of it all, it really was very entertaining. We were laughing and the staff took a picture of our group with the chicken. As you can imagine, we're very popular where ever we go because of the size and variety of our party. If we ever go someplace twice, they know who we are and they treat us very well. Los Alitas is no different. As soon as they see us coming, they get the tables together and start preparing the staff for our orders. It's a nice place to sit and relax and unwind from the day. It's been our great escape.