Come visit the Big Gringo at Bungalow 6

Come visit the Big Gringo at Bungalow 6

Want to come meet the author of the Ecuador Gringo? Come to Bungalow 6 in the Mariscal. That’s right everybody, I have been working upstairs in the famous Bungalow since I got to Quito 3 months ago. Bungalow is known as the Mariscal’s prime party spot and you can tell by the lines of people waiting to get in outside. Bungalow started becoming a cornerstone of the Mariscal’s party scene about 3 years back when John Ott and Sean Carter, a couple of American expats, took it over and began transforming it into a popular hangout, popular with both Ecuadorians and Foreigners alike. I heard one local Ecuadorian describe its secret as being a sort of melting pot Read more

Report from Quito—Where the hell can I get a drink?

Report from Quito—Where the hell can I get a drink?

It was last Sunday in the Mariscal, I walked up to Finn McCools, a popular Irish pub in Quito’s Mariscal with the mind to order a Sunday roast and indulge myself.  The waitress tells me there will be no roasts and that they’ll be shutting in 30 minutes.  Normally the beer would be flowing  at 4:30 in the afternoon, with the mixed crowd of locals, tourists,  and expats watching sports, eating, or playing pool, but the new law had kept pretty much everybody at home.  Quitos’ new drinking law had gone into effect and we were feeling it here at ground zero in the Mariscal, Quitos main party zone.

I looked back outside contemplating where to get Read more

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