Let's imagine: you've come into Durham on the bus, from somewhere like Sacriston or Pity Me, and you're fancying a canny breakfast at a Mexican themed cafe right beside the bus station. In this kind of situation then Salsa y Sabor is definitely the place for you:
Notice what they've done to create that brilliant 'y'? Nothing less than an exotic and hallucinogenic combination of hot chillis, sombreros and maracas - thus using every Mexican stereotype in the book...Ay, caramba!
Came here recently on a typical Spring day (i.e. one minute the sun was shining and the next minute it was hoying it down with snow). One of my daughters and her partner came with me. It has to be said they weren't all that keen so I think they were humouring the old man. Anyway, we had three canny breakfasts - two veggies and one meaty.
Veggie breakfast with a dollop of the brown sauce (a la early Jackson Pollock)
Meaty version (with cold bacon concealed by toast)
By the way, don't you think there's something about a table full of breakfast that makes you feel hungry just looking at it:
It has to be said we were a bit unnerved by the medicinal look of the condiment containers. The last time I saw bottles like these I was in casualty:
Anyway, it was a canny breakfast and during it I invented a new product, which I'm hoping to sell to that nice Lord Sugar. It allows you to keep your teapot hot while creating a weirdly warm sensation for your bonce when you eventually have to go out in to the snow. I'm not sure this photo does justice to the truly innovative concept that is the 'hatcosy' (working title - all rights reserved) but you probably get the general idea:
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