Panama - Super Gourmet

Super Gourmet Casco Viejo

Super Gourmet Casco Viejo is one of my favorite places in Panama City to eat and hang out. It is a friendly little place that sells a selection of deli items, wines, snacks, some hard-to-find groceries and an excellent selection of sandwiches and salads. They also have daily specials including a soup of the day and treats like meat loaf, chili con carne, smoked salmon pasta salad and buffalo chicken wing dip.

The atmosphere is super laid back and it's quite a community meeting spot, with expats living in the neighborhood generally stopping by for breakfast, lunch or dinner most days.

On Saturdays, Super Gourmet hosts a barbecue party, when people gather for the street-side grill-fest featuring delicious sausages, hamburgers and chicken shish-kebabs. Again, quite a community gathering, Super Gourmet plays good music and has cheap, ice-cold beer. Definitely worth stopping by when you're in Panama City at the weekend.

Super Gourmet is located on Avenida A, next to the Canal Museum

Tel: +507 212.3487

http://www.supergourmetcasco.com/.

Panama - Matseui Sushi

Matseui Sushi

Matseui Sushi is one of the lesser-known sushi restaurants in Panama City, but for me it has always been one of the best. It is a rather old-fashioned place, and could do with a fresh coat of paint, but apart from that, I like it. The wait-staff dress in traditional japanse attire and the sushi is generally very good.

Matseui is now promoting itself on Facebook, seemingly trying to boost their market image, and they have an "Open Sushi" promotion, which runs I think every night apart from Saturday. The deal is you pay $21.75 + 5% and you get all the sushi you want to eat, including nigiri (sushi) and rolls. The fish on offer last night was national tuna (maguro), fresh salmon (make), shrimp (ebi), yellowtail (bojala), snapper (pargo) and sole (lenguad0). For the rolls, you can choose California or Maki style, and you make your own out of a selection of ingredients or choose one of the chef's suggestions.

Everything we ate here was absolutely delicious, and the fish was some of the freshest and softest I have ever eaten. Think melt-in-your-mouth Tuna.

Matseui Sushi is located opposite the Hotel Granada in El Cangrejo.

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