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Il Buongustaio

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Il Buongustaio

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Il Buongustaio is a recurring venue in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 23, 2024 and March 31, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I feel calmer at Il Buongustaio. Small, sweet, a big back garden with sprawling marble arches and a classical aesthetic”; “we stayed at Il Buongustaio — Roman looking white marble arches in a sweet garden, and a formal-ish dining room”; “Il Buongustaio (hotel) is good for just dinner, too”. It most often appears alongside Bitcoin, El Salvador, El Xolo.

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  • Category: Venues
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: August 23, 2024
  • Last seen: March 31, 2025

Appears In

  • [[issues/2024-08-23_collected-agenda-8_full|COLLECTED AGENDA #8]]
  • El Salvador

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

COLLECTED AGENDA #8
August 23, 2024 · Original source
For lunch, I walk through the hills towards town to get things like guacamole takis and shelf-stable milk. Later, I’m trying to work by the pool but the heat keeps lulling me into complacency. Half asleep. Back on the terrace, people keep drifting in and out and so I keep saying hi. Nobody I know, but everyone is friendly. Afternoon, my boyfriend texts me. We’re moving to a hotel because the house is getting too full. I liked the airbnb, but I feel calmer at Il Buongustaio. Small, sweet, a big back garden with sprawling marble arches and a classical aesthetic. On the phone with my mom in the dark in the garden, I swear I see a jaguarundi, a long and narrow native wild cat. I’m in the grass, looking through the glass towards the inside, everyone seated on the couch. I start screaming and then the cat is gone. Maybe I was hallucinating.
Inline links: guacamole takis, shelf-stable milk, Il Buongustaio, jaguarundi
El Salvador
March 31, 2025 · Original source
In San Salvador, I stayed at a hacker house in the hills, except for one night, where we stayed at Il Buongustaio. Il Buongustaio is where we stayed the whole time in August - Roman looking white marble arches in a sweet garden, and a formal-ish dining room that bleeds into the open air, humid breeze. The rooms are very nice, each one quite spacious and sparse in a chic way, and each one opening up to a private garden. I saw a jaguarundi here. Nature is healing, they told me back at the airbnb, when I first relayed this jaguarundi story.
Inline links: Il Buongustaio
Other restaurants that I like in San Salvador include Monarca - an elegant steakhouse with a garden that feels like its out of a different era. Il Buongustaio (hotel) is good for just dinner, too. Delikat has nice breakfast and smoothies and trees growing through the patio and vines and flowers growing down from the roof. Casa del Cazador is a German Korean BBQ style restaurant where you grill your own food on hot plates inside an old fashioned looking farmhouse, also decorated with a lifesize status of Mary and Jesus and a few other biblical / historical figures. I never went to i4Tavolini, but I heard you reach this spot via long dirt road, and I also heard that the aesthetics are reminiscent of the houses in a Francis Ford Coppola film.
Inline links: Monarca, Il Buongustaio, Delikat, Casa del Cazador, i4Tavolini

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