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Balboa
Pizzeria
Mexico City, Mexico
Billy and Akaisha Kaderli
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Our
hotel room in Mexico City was in a GREAT location.
We had restaurants,
shops,
street food and markets all available to us within walking distance.

Balboa Pizzeria
This pizzeria was just a few steps from
our room, and we passed by it every day. Popular at lunch and dinner times,
we decided to give it a try. There were several restaurants to the right of
Balboa, including a Japanese place, and several restaurants to the left of
Balboa as well.
We had our choices!

Inside Balboa
The Balboa had indoor and outdoor
seating, and since it was a corner restaurant, it had two street front
outside seating areas.

Cocktail menu
Balboa had a nice selection of cocktails
to choose from. Here you see the Miles Davis cocktail at the top.

From the outdoor seating looking in
Balboa was a very social place for
eating. It seemed to draw a crowd every day during the week at lunch and
dinner. On weekends, it was surprisingly quiet here in our area, and the
restaurants were less populated.
We figured that since
we were in the embassy district, lunches and dinners during the working week
were filled with office workers and business people. Then on weekends,
they'd all return home to the suburbs and fill up the restaurants there.

Menu
The selections of pizza and beer were
numerous. One could order draft beer, a bottle of Mexican style beer, or
choose a boutique beer. Prices of beer ran from $1.25 USD for a draft to
$9.50 USD for 740 ml of Amber Lager.
Pizzas were sizes Medium and Large. The
pizza of the house, the Balboa, is made with blue cheese, figs, nuts, a red
wine sauce made with Malbec, and topped with Mozzarella cheese.
Yummy!

Chicken Cannelloni with Chipotle Sauce
Billy decided on a Chicken
Cannelloni with a Chipotle Sauce. It had wonderful taste and came to the
table piping hot!
The sauce was to die for, but Billy would
have preferred his chicken to have been shredded instead of ground to give
the dish more texture.

Spinach Raviolis with Estofata
I ordered the raviolis, as you can see
here in the photo. When I asked what "Estofata" was, the waitress said,
"Well, it's Estofata. You know, Estofata."
Unfortunately I didn't know what that
was, so I just asked her if it was good and she said it was. So I decided to
take a chance.
Terrific!!
The Estofata was a delicious,
melt-in-your-mouth beef pot roast. There was plenty of meat here for me to
share with Billy, and we were yumming and mmmm-ing all the way through our
meal.

Our bill
With four beers and our two
meals, our bill came to $18 USD, without tip.
As we were sitting and
eating our meal, two large, buffed-out men in dark suits came into the
restaurant. They had listening devices in their ears and the curling cord ran down the
backs of their necks. Their muscles were so big, I thought they might rip the
sleeves of their suit coats.
One man was shaved bald
(and let me tell you, not one hair was out of place!) and was completely focused
on his digital device. The other had his back to us, so it was hard to tell much
about him without making ourselves conspicuous.
Not long after they left,
we saw both a stretch Hummer and a stretch limousine that could easily seat 15
people pull past our table on the street.
These bodyguards were not
messin' around!
Just another night in the
Big City.
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About the Authors
Billy and Akaisha Kaderli are
recognized retirement experts and internationally published authors on
topics of finance, medical tourism and world travel. With the wealth of
information they share on their award winning website RetireEarlyLifestyle.com,
they have been helping people achieve their own retirement dreams since
1991. They wrote the popular books, The
Adventurer’s Guide to Early Retirement and Your
Retirement Dream IS Possible available on their website
bookstore or
on Amazon.com.



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