FOODNOTE: World-(Working)-Class Food in Brooklyn

Sabor Latino

347 Union Ave, Williamsburg

The truth is: I have eaten at this Ecuadorian restaurant many times before since moving from Portland to Brooklyn in the summer 2011. But having just come back from a trip to Argentina (a week ago), I decided to check it out - I was craving for pescado, having had too much carne in Tangoland. I had been drawn to Sabor because of how simple and delicious the food is - yet better, no matter how frequent I go and eat the same combination of food - fried fish with white rice and lentils gravy - the consistency has not lowered a crunch - I mean, a notch. (Quite a number of high-end restaurants in the city sometimes hit or miss the taste mark, but not Sabor. I'm actually still quite surprised why the restaurant hasn't received a proper review and rating, and discovered by Mr. Pete Wells.) The taste from the spoon to the mouth is trans-delectably Central American - I think the "tierra" or the "playa" are infused I don't know how; and I say this because you start with a yuca-creamed leek soup with a wedge of lime evoking a fishing village lunch, and then comes the fried ocean catch! vinegared on top with raw onion and tomato salsa (I like eating this too-good-of-a-food like a snake gulping a whole egg) - so I down the fish-fry with a spoonful of soup cutting through the "tempura dungeness meat"straight to my esophagus with the tea rice and bloody good legumes - and release the town's church bells like a marriage announcement I am eating Galapagos, Ecuador with love! It's weird how food makes me write this way.

But I'm not exaggerating. All for $7.95.