Varying Verb Tenses

Question

I am trying to write a composition for school. The premise is that I am a food critic and I need to wrie an article about my experience with a restaurant I visited recently. Can I begin the article by saying that I went to review the restaurant (using preterite tense) and then telling the readers where the restaurant is located by using the present tense and saying that tourists have to look carefully to find it (using the present tense). For example, my sentence reads:

Fui pasar el restaurante Oceana en New Orleans. Oceana esta en el centro de la ciudad pero los turistas tienen mirar con cuidada encontrarlo."

Then I get into the rest of the article using either preterite or imperfect as appropriate. I know that when you are telling a story you use either preterite or imperfect but I didn't know if you could set up the scenario using, if appropriate, the present tense.

Answer 1

Yes you can use tenses as you have mentioned.

I would, however, make a few minor changes to your intro, ie:

"Fui al restaurante Oceana en New Orleans. Oceana está en el centro de la ciudad pero los turistas tienen que buscarlo con cuidado para encontrarlo."