Ambiente Living Prague

1 stop on the 10 or 16 Tram away from Namesti Miru, at Manesova 59.


I've heard less than complimentary things about the Ambiente Pizza, and the whole Brazilian Red-Meat Orgy leaves us a little cold, but the Ambiente Fresca remains our favorite Italian and now the Ambiente Living has impressed us with their Mexican & Red-Meat specials.

First they brought us a little amuse bouchee' that was like a steak-&-potatoes meal in a spoon. Very good.

then we split an appetizer of fresh jalapeno poppers, expertly battered in crushed corn flakes and deep-fried.

Awesome!

Then mixed (Chicken & Beef) fajitas. Almost authentic. Very nice. Would have been nice to have done the full monty with a pitcher of margaritas . . . 8^D. . .

I think for mexican food, ordinarily we would still go to Las Adelitas by Namesti Miru, but they don't have fajitas, so this would easily be our second choice. They could be our first choice for a fine meat meal . . .they seem to take a great deal of care & pride in their meat. Good For Us!

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Update

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so we went back...

There's just to kinds of restaurants, now: them that has amuse bouche' and them that don't. Ambiente's are like a blue-plate special, meat & potatos, and very satisfying . . . someday we'll just go in there for a glass of wine and an amuse bouche', then bolt.

We had the same stuffed jalapeno appetiser, again. Excellent again . Words superfluous.

A Bohemia Charolais Tenderloin in Porto Sauce. They say this is the best they have, meat-wise. I'm not sure I want my red meat any better, for health reasons, if you see what I mean. Just excellent. They have some also from South America, but it is comforting to know such excellence can be had close to home, and so we support it.

Mrs had the same cut of meat with the house sauce, the Ambiente (pancetta, juniper, pancetta butter). She didn't eat the bacon of course, so I finished it for her, just to avoid a scene with the kitchen, doncha see . . . 8^D . . . it had a very fine smoky flavour that if imparted to the meat WOULD be excellent in deed . . . as I expect it was. Mrs made no complaint . . . 8^)

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2nd Visit

Amuse Bouchee' -- ooooh! like goulash in a spoon!

Mrs had selected the Filet Mignon with a Guacamole topping. It was fine, but cutting the filet into these thin medallions made it seem less ... mignon, if you see what I mean. nothing wrong with the guacamole, tho', their grasp of mexican cuisine seems more than adequate . . .

The deal there is, you can pick your cut of meat and a sauce, of which we've now had 4 variations . . . I think this one was called The Ambiente. I really did enjoy the peppers, but again the thinness of the filets was somehow less than what we wanted  -- mine wasn't overdone -- ordered medium rare -- but Mrs "feels" her medium might have been. Hey it wasn't so bad we didn't go back . . . 8^D . . . and that potato . . . with Tzatziki on it. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!