Happy Halloween Weekend

• Live music tonight with Latin Groove Combo starting around 8 pm.
• Saturday night Halloween, we will not be having live entertainment - enjoy trick or treating!
• Sunday Brunch will start at 10 am $ 9.50 breakfast spread includes beverages, and this week we are going to have some great pro football matchups on TV. Go Chargers

Entertainment This Weekend

Miami Grille UTC

• Thursday 10/22/09 starting @ 7 pm salsa dance lessons with Walter at its usual time. There is no charge for the lessons but Walter requests a donation of $ 10 to his charity "Dancing After School" Following salsa dance lessons this Thursday night we will be featuring Emilio & Tres Cubanos (playing most Saturday Nights) Luna Llena will return next Thursday 10/29/09.
• Friday night there will be no live music we will close early due to a private event.
• Saturday night 10/24/09 beginning at 9pm we will be featuring Diego Mondargon on violin, playing jazz/salsa in a proformance you do not want to miss.

Remember to check out our web site for the latest information on drink specials and live music http://www.miamigrille.com/

858-552-0668

Breast Cancer Foundation

Please Join Us Tomorrow,

Saturday, October 17

between 5 and 11:30 p.m.

we are proud to sponsor
The San Diego Breast Cancer 3Day Camp Logistics Team!

For each of the following select items ordered tonight,
Miami Grille will donate $1 to the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation:

Canasta de Frita
Key West Chopp
Bread Pudding

From the bar:
Pink Ribbon Cachaça Spritzer

The event will also feature a Salsa lesson at 7pm, live Cuban band and dancing at 8pm and Raffle prizes all night!

Chimichurri

Jimmy McCurry

Chimichurri originated from Argentina and Uruguay, and is a popular sauce used with grilled meat in many Latin American countries. The unusual name comes from 'Jimmy McCurry', an Irishman who first prepared the sauce. He was sympathetic to the cause of Argentine independence and marched with the troops of General Jasson Ospina in the 19th century. The sauce was popular and the recipe was passed on. However, 'Jimmy McCurry' was difficult for the native people to say so the name was corrupted and morphed to 'chimichurri'.

Miami Grille serves the chimichurri in serveral dishes including the Churrasco Chopp, The Chimichurri Chicken Chopp and the Churrasco Plancha (Sandwich).

Churrasco is a Portuguese and Spanish term referring to beef or grilled meat. In Latin America especially Argentina, Uruguay and in the South of Brazil a churrasco is a thick cut of skirt steak served with chimichurri.

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Elena Ruz (The Sandwich)

Elena Ruz
Cuba History pre Castro at its best - I found this explanation of the name of this popular sandwich on Chowhound Florida, must be true ;-)

Robert Creamer, author of the definitive Babe Ruth biography, explained in a 1960’s interview for the Saturday Evening Post how the Babe went to Cuba to play baseball in the off-season at least twice with his first wife, Helen. Helen, who was of frail health and who rarely went out, asked the head waiter at the Hotel Nacional in Havana, where they were staying, to prepare her a sandwich that her grandmother used to make: turkey slices with cream cheese and strawberry jam on toasted white bread. The head waiter obliged the babseball star’s wife, and thus the sandwich was named Elena (or Helen) Rus (pronounced “Roos”, a literal spelling of how non-English speaking Cubans pronounced “Ruth”). This story was confirmed by that head waiter, whose name was Valsar, and who went to exile in Miami after 1960, and died shortly thereafter.

Of course you can enjoy this Plancha at Maimi Grille here in San Diego and eat a little history.
$ 9.50 served with our mixed fries (half sandwich available M-Th 11am-1pm $ 4.75)