The school is in the Mariscal district, which contains "Gringolandia". We've walked through several times, poking our heads into the restaurants and then leaving as soon as we see the prices. Many places have pricing similar to the US ($9 for a burger). Yowsa! We've been dining just outside white-people-land in the more reasonably priced areas. Today, however, we did go to one of the restaurants in Gringolandia that was a bit off the main drag. It had "authentic Ecuadorian" food, which after looking through the menu is probably accurate. We had choclo (local corn with giant kernels and humongous germs, very starchy) with cheese and haba (beans similar to fava), una humita (essentially a tamale), and llapingachos (cheesy potato blob) with chorizo & egg. So good! We'll probably go back and just get a humita and soup since all that was a ton of food. They also had cuy (guinea pig) but it was $23 for a whole one; we'll probably get that somewhere besides Quito.
Outside of class we've successfully found paper for notecards, bought several meringues, ordered lunches, caught a taxi in the rain, etc. So far, so good! Here are a few pictures of Quito from the roof of the hostel we stayed at last week:
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