El Camino's brunch wows us with Latino style LEO's Eats with Robin GarrWhat? The food guy is going Mexican
again? Three weeks running, he's ricocheted from Argentine beef to taqueria offal to fancified Chicano fare in the surfer tradition?
¿Qué pasa? Or, in the Queen's English, what's up with that?
Hmm. I suppose I could claim that I'm dining Latino-style out of solidarity with the flood of kids from Central America who are piling up at our border. I could say I'm doing it to take a stand in a national debate that prompts some Americans to yell that Lady Liberty lifts her lamp beside the golden door only for immigrants who look like us.
And those things could be true.
But to be honest, I mainly went to El Camino this week to check out the Sunday brunch <!--more-->that began there earlier this year. I had been eager to get back, anyway, since Chef Jonathan Schwartz moved on rather abruptly a month after it opened, to be replaced by Chef Brian Enyart, formerly chef de cuisine under chef-media star Rick Bayless at Chicago's Topolobampo and Frontera Grill. That had to bode well.
Now, full up after brunch, I'm prepared to say that El Camino is just as good as ever. The brunch - offered from a menu, not buffet-style - is a fine way to while away a Sunday midday.
El Camino did a major remodel when it took over the old Avalon space. Its colorful Latino look, which mashes up stained-glass church windows and presumably ironic votive candles with
Dia de Muertos tchotchkes, is just as bright and fun by daylight as it was during our previous dinner visit.
Chef Enyart's team does a fine job with the brunch menu, too. ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/el-ca ... tino-styleAnd in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/el-caminos- ... tino-styleBrunch at El Camino1314 Bardstown Road
454-5417
http://elfreakingcamino.comhttps://facebook.com/ElCaminoLouisvilleRobin Garr's rating: 89 points