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Address: 551 Green Lanes, London N8 0RL
Telephone number: 020 8340 9691
Website: www.flamebistrorestaurant.com
Date of visit: 23 November 2010
Approximate cost per head: Around £15
Comments on wine list/beer: Very cheap and wine list with little choice – £15 a bottle. Efes beer is £2.80 a bottle
Summary:
I was on Green Lanes exploring the local gastronomic scene. The place seemed to be full of Greek Cypriots, Turks and Kurds. By the way, they seemed to have very similar food.
I was first enticed to the Cypress Kitchen in St Anne’s Lane. However from the outside, I can’t see any alcohol for sale. I next went to the Kurdish Restaurant on Green Lanes and again, it looked dry to me. I then cross the road and discovered Flame – a Turkish restaurant.
As you walked in, there is a mini kitchen and counter to serve takeaways. There were two donor kebabs rotating and a huge grilling area for skewers of kebabs. The furniture was Formica but the place looked very clean. The floor was snow white.
I settled for the Falafel (£4), Calamari (£4) and the Imam Bayildi (£3). I also asked for a bottle of Turkish red (2009 Yakut Kavaklidee, £15).
The waitress first brought me a glass of red and I had great difficulty in explaining that I wanted a full bottle (yes, there is only one of me and it is lunch time). When she eventually worked it out and bought me a bottle, the bottle was slightly (ever so slightly corked). I decided that it would take me the rest of my lunch to explain that the wine is not all right but it is drinkable. To be honest, it was not a bad wine if it was not corked.
Then the food came and it was very, very good. The falafel was made with crushed beans and chick peas, the outside fried to a crisp. The taste and texture were both excellent. The calamari was battered and was ok. Now both dishes came with a salad of lettuce leaves and tomatoes and a dip. For the falafel, they served hummus, for the calamari, I was served taramasalata. Now these weren’t little pots but huge servings like a starter portion. I was also offered warm Turkish bread – whole loaf – about a double sized bap. The iman bayildi were five little aubergines that were slit down the middle with both ends intact and stuffed with tomatoes and onions.
I was in foodie heaven. For £11, I had three enormous portions (for starters) and two dips. They were all cooked properly and very tasty. Pity about the wine but the whole bill was £26 excluding service. By the way, they had paper napkins but it is ok for places like this. I asked for a cork and took the bottle away (two third full). Later, I emptied the wine down a drain and recycled the bottle.
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Location: Latassa 34, Zaragoza 50006, Spain
Telephone number: Spain 976 23 65 03
Website: www.labodegadechema.com
Cost per head: From around €30
Wine list: Good selection of well-priced Spanish wines.
Date of visit: 15 November 2010
Cuisine: Spanish
Summary:
Having been to this restaurant on Friday 11 November, we were not intending to go to this restaurant so soon afterwards despite the fact that we thoroughly enjoyed the meal there. When we were in Zaragoza last summer we visited a restaurant nearby where we had a very good meal and we thought we will try it again this time. This restaurant was the Goyesco and knowing that some restaurants in Zaragoza are closed on Monday night we looked at the website of the restaurant for the opening hours and we were pleased to note that it was closed only on Sunday nights. So despite the cold wind on Monday night we walked the 25 minutes to it but despite the fact that we arrived well after the opening time there was no signs of life as everything was shut and dark! This was disappointing to say the least and we will certainly think twice before making the effort to go to it again!
However, as we were close to La Bodega de Chema we decided to pay it a repeat visit especially since the menus had changed after the end of the I Jornada Gastronomica de las Setas y el Cabrito. As it was a Monday night, the restaurant was very quiet and not like the last Friday night. The owners welcomed us warmly and after a chat we were led to our table. The Menu Especial was is a fixed price menu (36 Euros) with 3 starters, following a selection of main from the 4 dishes on offer and then a choice of one of 2 desserts; local wine, mineral water and bread are also included.
Warm bread and water arrived together with a large dish of marinated enormous green olives which were excellent. Although the wine on offer was a young wine from the Somontano region of Aragon, we were offered the chance to change this if we wished and we opted for the “Azpilicueta”Crianza 2006 from Bodegas Age in the Rioja region which we also had on Friday night; the Somontano Joven would have been fruity, soft and enjoyable but I felt that the Rioja was of a much better quality and we were not disappointed.
The starters arrived one by one with the first one being Ensalada templada de chipirones con setas frescas y vegetales (baby squid salad with fresh leaves, vegetables and mushrooms). The second starter was Hojaldre relleno de gambas al ajillo y habitas en salsa americana (puff pastry filled with prawns in garlic and baby broad beans) and the third one was Delicias de la Bodega rellenas de queso de oveja con salsa de trufa (meatballs containing some goat cheese and served in a truffle sauce). All three starters were excellent.
Of the main dishes we again chose the Cabrito asado al horno con patatas al estilo tradicional (very young local lamb cooked in the oven) which was again excellent. Our second choice was the Cochinillo en dos cocciones con su jugo a la pimienta verde (young piglet slow roasted for 8 hours in the oven before roasting for a short time at high temperatura to dry the skin): this was excellent and, like the lamb dish, very large so we took our time eating all this!
Time for desserts eventually arrived and instead of the two on offer (one was the excellent mushroom ice cream which we had on Friday and the second was a selection of sorbets) we were offered the full choice from the home-made desserts’ menú; we chose the chocolate mousse which was surprisingly light and the duo of cheeses which was excellent and surprisingly generous.
After coffee we chatted to the owner and we promised to visit again when we are back in Zaragoza next summer. We look forward to that visit! All this came to an extremely reasonable 72 Euros (including tax) for the two of us!
The restaurant does of course also offer an extensive a la carte menu and a very good and sensibly priced wine list covering all the main wine-producing regions of Spain but it is strong in Rioja and Aragon wines. The fixed price menus are nevertheless excellent value for money. We remember seeing a comment on a restaurant menu in Barcelona saying that they had no Michelin stars but they knew how to cook and we felt that the same comment applies to La Bodega de Chema.
Demetris Savva
Location: Paseo Pamplona 17, Zaragoza 50004, Spain
Telephone number: Spain 976 23 80 72 and 976 23 35 78
Website: www.tabernadelmonoloco.com
Cost per head: From around €15 for the buffet
Wine list: Excellent selection of well-priced Spanish and foreign wines.
Date of visit: 11 November 2010
Cuisine: Spanish
Summary:
The Mono Loco (crazy monkey) has been one of our favourite restaurants in Zaragoza for a while. We were entertained there for the first time one lunch time just after we had arrived exactly 6 years ago when we were visiting for work with another couple and we were also attending a wedding at the weekend; the food was so good that we have been going there every time we have been to Zaragoza since then. On all previous occasions we were always surprised to see the place extremely quiet; although this was not good for business, it was good for the clientele since it was possible to talk to the staff and discuss the food and wine. In fact we became good friends with the owner/cook (Ernesto) and many of the staff who have been there for a few years. However, despite the fact that this time we were early by Spanish standards, we were extremely surprised to find the place full this time (even the tables by the side of the tapas bar counter) and we were very pleased when a table was found for us! Ernesto came up with novel ways to beat the economic crisis in Zaragoza and get people in the restaurant by offering low-priced, all-you-can-eat, rice-based dishes that change every day: however, as he admitted with a broad smile “people are also drinking and ordering other things also” which obviously helps the bottom line!
The restaurant has 3-4 small tables at the side of the bar after which there is a dining area but there is an additional dining area in the basement where there is also an excellent air-conditioned “bodega” where the large selection of excellent wines are stored and if you wish you may visit this to choose your wine for the meal; alternatively you may choose your wine from the list which is presented to you in the form of a tablet PC on which you can navigate through the different colours, regions, countries, bodegas etc to help you choose your wine. The wines are priced with a reasonable mark-up rather than the very high UK restaurant mark-ups.
When we are there we usually opt for the Menu de Chuleton (32.40 Euros including the tax) and this was no exception. With this you get 4 starters, a massive 1 kilo of off-the-bone tender beef chop in 1-1.5cm thick slices, a selection of desserts, bread, mineral water and a very decent wine (usually a Rioja Joven or Crianza). This time we started with a glass of white wine each, a Rueda Verdejo and an Albarino, both of which were extremely fruity, refreshing and with a very long finish. Before the starters we were asked whether we wanted the Rioja which was included or whether we wanted to change with no extra charge to the last bottle of the Joan Gine Gine 2000 from the Priorat zone of Catalunya and we immediately jumped at the opportunity. We have visited the region with friends last Christmas when we were in Barcelona and the wines we tasted then as well as others we tasted at other times were always excellent. This wine was no exception and we were very surprised and extremely pleased that it was bin-ended and offered to us; made from the local Monastrell grape (thick-skinned, black grape high in tannins and late to ripen used for blending in Chateauneuf-du Pape and on its own in Bandol in France) it was still extremely rich in soft fruit, the cherry colour was still very bright, the nose was very intense with both the rich fruit, vanilla and tannins showing and it proved to be a very powerful mouthful! The starters arrived one by one (bacalao croquetes, grilled king prawns, red peppers filled with bacalao and prawns and a salad) and as always they were perfectly cooked and presented. The beef arrived on a big plate together with a hotplate in the middle of the table so that we could cook it to our liking; halfway through the meat the hotplate was replaced to enable us to continue our cooking! The meat was very lean and the tenderness was almost that of filet! As we still had a third of a bottle of wine, we asked for a selection of cheeses rather than the selection of desserts and Ernesto and his crew duly obliged with a smile remembering that we had this on previous occasions also.
[Soft Break]In the end we moved to the bar area for the coffee and I also had a very large measure of brandy which I had not tried before; this was the Luis Felipe which turned out to have a very good nose, an extremely dark colour and a rich caramelised taste.
The cuenta came to a very reasonable 83.30 Euros for the two of us! We will of course return to the Mono Loco as the food is excellent and it has the added advantage that it is close to the hotel we usually stay at! In fact next time we may try Ernesto’s buffet offering or the menu offering a 50% discount when booked on the web! The informative website is worth a look.
We hope that the Mono Loco continues to be very busy although we also hope that it will not be so busy as to not have any tables available when we turn up next time!
Demetris Savva
Location: Anhalter Strasse 8-9, Berlin10963, Germany
Telephone number: Germany 30 26 48 30
Website: www.relexa-hotels.de
Cost per head: From around €35
Wine list: Basic but good selection of beers.
Date of visit: 17-19 September 2010
Cuisine: International
Summary:
We were in Berlin for the second time last September and I kept meaning to write this since then but lack of time prevented me from doing so! However, I thought it was time to do so, better late than never, so here it goes …….
Like the first time, we stayed at the Suitehotel (part of the Accor Hotel chain) which is very well located and easy to find being close to an underground station. Going out for a walk after dinner one night at about 10 o’clock, we noticed the menu on the window of the Relexa Hotel which was at the other end of the same street as our hotel and when we stopped to look at it two contented diners recommended it strongly “especially if you arrive before 8 p.m. because everything is half price”! We looked at the menu in detail and we thought that it sounded good so we went there the next evening and also the following two evenings since we thoroughly enjoyed our first meal there! Furthermore if you arrive and order between 6 and 8 all the Main Courses, the Side Dishes and the Desserts as well as the Beers are half price (Happy Hour as they refer to it) although when we ordered something else after 8 p.m. the offer still applied! Despite the offer, the restaurant was not very busy on any of the three nights we visited which was a shame although on one night there must have been some event taking place in another part of the restaurant since food piled up on serving dishes was constantly going out of the kitchen!
The waiters were very pleasant and helpful with good command of English so we had no trouble ordering despite the fact that neither of us speaks any German. On all occasions we drank beer as we were not impressed by the wine selection but the beers were excellent! Every time we tried different starters (not part of the promotion but fairly cheap anyway) and we were impressed both by the quantity as well as the quality; there were 16 different starters (soups, risotto, pasta and others). On the different visits we tried Duck-satay with sweet mango and peanut butter, Baked goat cheese with a chutney of grape and orange served with a small nut salad and fried calf’s liver cut into stripes and served with a cream of port wine and mushrooms all of which were excellent.
From the seven main courses (served with a side dish) we tried Fried stripes of beef filet in a cream of forest mushrooms served with beans and potato gratin, Fried Barbarie duckbreast with sautéed chanterelles, Thai-asparagus and lime spume and rosemary potatoes, Fried saddle of young boar with herbed salsify and grilled tomato and potato gnocchi, Fried fillet of turbotwith sautéed spring leek, sour-cherry-jus and Shiitake mushrooms and rosemary potatoes and Medium fried New Zealand lamb-rack with pearl onion gravy and broad beans tossed in butter and potato gratin or rosemary potatoes. In all cases we were extremely satisfied with the quality of the dishes and more than satisfied with the quantities; in the case of the last dish we actually got the whole of the rack (8 ribs) every time!
From the short dessert list of 4 dishes we tried the warm chocolate soufflé with home-made passion fruit sorbet, Parfait of Madeira with blueberry coulis and baked canache and the non-descriptive Relexa dessert selection which turned out to be a selection of 4 full-portion items including both warm and cold desserts. Again these were extremely well prepared and presented.
On each occasion our bill for 3 courses and a liter of beer each came to under €40. The quality of the food was extremely high but this was not surprising since this is one of two hotels in the chain that runs a cookery school for guests and they offer special packages for any would-be Delia (or her German equivalent)! Credit card payments were performed at the hotel’s reception desk and the young night receptionist recognized us and had a good chat with us after the first night!
We will certainly check this place out again if we are in Berlin again in the future! Many thanks to the unknown couple (Dutch we thought) who recommended it to us in front of the hotel!
Demetris Savva
Hi,
Its that time of the year again. So if you are an eartly bird like me, start planning. Here are a few thoughts – please note that everything we publish are ours views; no sponsorship or third party influence.
As I am based in the UK, the suggestions are limited to UK.
Lets start with smoke salmon. The “best” comes from Foreman and Field – side of smoked wild salmon. However, it is around £100.
(http://www.formanandfield.com/?referer=63)
Try Brown and Forrest (http://www.smokedeel.co.uk/) as an alternative. They do smoked salmon but I recommend the smoked eel, smoked duck or smoke lamb – the best smoke lamb used to come from The Old Smoke House, Brougham. Rona Newsom who ran the place single handed used to sell legs of black face lamb. Sadly, Rona no longer runs the place and I have not be able to drive pass the place and see how the new owners are doing.
For legs of ham, cooked or uncooked, try Dukeshill.
http://www.dukeshillham.co.uk/content.asp?pageID=30001
If you cook it yourself (beware, 6 hours and a large container is needed), you will also have a lovely stock to make soup.
For Turkeys or goose, try Vickers (if you are near Reading). Try to pot roast the turkey, the meat stays juicy.
For cheese, my latest favourite is Lightwood Cheese (http://www.lightwoodcheese.co.uk/cheese.htm).
Around Worcester, they also have Anstys if you porefer a milder cheese (http://www.ansteys.com/).
For wine, go for a 2000 or 1996 claret. They will both be perfect. Try Tanners or Berry Brothers.
http://www.tanners-wines.co.uk/TannersSite/pages/home/default.asp
For something different, go to Birmingham and pick up bread, sausages and desserts from the “Frankfurt” Xmas market.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/frankfurtmarket
When you get fed up with all this, why not celebrate The New Year with Japanese Cuisine. Plenty of good ideas from The Japan Centre
E
November 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/21/nigel-slater-classic-coleslaw-recipe
This is a good version, crunchy and very visual.
E
Nov 2010
Address: Bennett End, Radnage Nr Stokenchurch (A40), Bucks HP14 4EB
Telephone number: 01494 483 273
Website: www.thethreehorseshoes.net
Date of visit: 18 November 2010
Approximate cost per head: around £30 for 2 courses with the a la carte menu. Set lunch £12.50 for 2 courses or £17.50 for 3 courses.
Comments on wine list/beer: Brakspear and Rebellion on tap, local cider. Simple wine list at reasonable price.
Cuisine: Modern British
Summary:
This pub has been listed as a Bib Gourmand (good food at reasonable) price in the Michelin Guide for 2 years running. It is also in the Good Food Guide and Good Pub Guide.
This is another place that is down a single track country lane. I would not recommend that you drive in the dark round here after a few alcoholic drinks. There are a couple of places where 2 cars can pass – just. However, the road is very bendy and you are talking about 50 yards plus between these “double spaces”. One of you will have to reverse in the dark!
When you get there, the Pub has a nice car park with views over open countryside.
Inside the building, there is a drinks area and a restaurant housed in a “newer” extension that is bright and spacious.
The couple next to me ordered the set lunch of chicken liver pate followed by fish and chips from the set lunch menu. They seemed to enjoy their food and the portions looked quite generous.
I had the scallops with pork belly (£9.50) followed by the ham, egg and triple cooked chips (£11). I also had half a pint of cider (£1.90) and a large of Bordeaux (£7.25) – 250ml of 2005 Ch La Croix. The cider was dry and not a lot of taste to it. The red wine was fine.
The scallops (3) were served on a square glass plate with a croquette of bread crumbed pork belly cut diagonally in a lovely presentation. Now, the pork croquette is a clever invention. Essentially, lean pork belly is poached, then allowed to cool in béchamel sauce in the fridge. When the dish solidified, chunks are cut out, bread crumbed and deep fried. Once you cut into it, the béchamel sauce will run – similar to a soft boiled egg. It was a great dish.
The ham, egg and triple cooked chips was also a fine dish but the chips were never triple cooked. Instead, I had what I called Rubic Cube chips. Fat chips are cut into the same size and then you pile 3 cooked chips on top of 3 chips at 90 degrees. You then pile (at 90 degrees) another 3 chips on top again. You end up getting a symmetrical cube of 9 chips. I first came across this 10 years ago at Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons when the kitchen produced it as a special one off for a young child. I can only say that rubic cube chips is presentation taking priority over taste. The problem is that if the chips are hard, they won’t stay on top of each other and so you can only pile “softish” chips like this on top of each other
You can’t pile triple cooked chips on top of each other because the chips had to be boiled until they start to disintegrate. They are then dried and deep fried first at 130 degrees centigrade, dripped and cooled, and then deep fried again at 190 degrees centigrade. So, every triple cooked chip is different in shape and the edges are serrated.
Sorry, but I have eaten triple cooked chips at The Hind Head, The Royal Oak, The Hand and Flower etc and I also make it regularly so I know what I am talking about.
By the way, the 2 fried eggs had lovely soft yolk and the two slices of ham were a la plancha.
It was a good meal other than the “wrong” chips. If I had known, I would have gone for the fish and chips. The chips with the fish were French Fries and not Rubic Cube Chips.
E
Location: Latassa 34, Zaragoza 50006, Spain
Telephone number: Spain 976 23 65 03
Website: www.labodegadechema.com
Cost per head: From around €30
Wine list: Good selection of well-priced Spanish wines.
Date of visit: 12 November 2010
Cusine: Spanish
Summary:
We came across this restaurant through an advertisement on the website of a local newspaper (Heraldo) before we went to Zaragoza. We checked the website and it was advertising a special menu based on mushrooms and lamb as part of the I Jornada Gastronomica de las Setas y el Cabrito. The menu sounded good so we decided to walk there from our hotel (about 20 minutes) to try it out. We arrived and asked for a table only to be asked if we had a reservation and although we did not we were shown to one of the few tables that were not reserved; the reservation list was long which is always a good sign! Another good sign was the fact that the restaurant was already busy despite the fact that at 9:30 it was still early for Zaragoza and by about 10 the place was packed!
We decided to have the recommended special Menu de las Setas y el Cabrito at 35 Euros (all inclusive). This was basically a fixed menu except that there was choice of 2 main dishes and we opted to have one of each just to try them! Having ordered, the warm bread, the mineral water and the red wine arrived. The wine was “Azpilicueta”Crianza 2006 from Bodegas Age in Fuenmayor in the Rioja region; this would have had 12 months maturation in French and American oak barrels followed by 7-12 months in bottle before its release. The wine had a bright cherry colour and was very fruity with hints of vanilla and other spices as would be expected from a decent Rioja wine; it was fresh, smoth and typical of the region. Now for the food! Soon after the wine we were served with the Aperitive de Bienvenida (the welcome mini dish) of Mininapolitana rellena de longaniza, queso de cabra yhuevo del rey (a mini pizza stuffed with sausage, goat cheese and fish eggs). This was followed by substantial portions of 3 other starters: Ensalada templada de rebellones escabechados con crujiente de lechecillas y su vinagreta ahumada, Cocochas de bacalao al pil pil de azafran de Montreal con llanegas, pie azul y shii-take and finally Hamburgesa de cabrito con trompetlla negra y lecho de rebozuelos frescos con su jugo de trufa. All of these were pronounced excellent.
The two mains arrived and they were Costillar de cabrito relleno de hongos y foie, con zocalode escarlatas y carboneras and Cabrito asado al horno con patatas al estilo tradicional. Again, both of these were excellent but the cabrito asado is a speciality of the house and they do it very well indeed! You need to have a good apetite for this dish as you get the whole leg up to and including the shoulder blade on a bed of potatoes in an ovenproof dish!
The dessert was very interesting and very good although we were not sure what to expect as it was Bizcocho casero de chocolate con espuma de crema trufada y helado de setas, a thick and soft home-made chocolate biscuit loaded with a mushroom ice cream and a truffle cream! We will try this at home!
We followed this with coffees and a very large measure of Cardinal Mendoza, an excellent Spanish brandy from Jerez.
As our table was conveniently close to the desk, throughout the evening we chatted to the very helpful lady who owns the place with her husband about the restaurant, the food and the wine. In the end she also gave us a gift of a wine thermometer as a reminder of our visit.
What was the damage for an excellent meal and a very enjoyable evening? All in, the bill came to an extremely reasonable 79 Euros for the two of us! An experience worth repeating! The “worst” part of it was leaving at about midnight and for the 20 minute walk back to the hotel on a still warm evening (still 14 degrees) in Zaragoza!
Demetris Savva
Location: Pedro Maria Ric 35, Zaragoza 50008, Spain
Telephone number: Spain 976 23 65 03
Website: N/A
Cost per head: From around €18
Wine list: Good selection of well-priced Spanish wines.
Date of visit: 10 November 2010
Cusinde: Spanish
Summary:
As regular visitors to Zaragoza in the last 20 years we have eaten either alone or with local friends in many local restaurants but last summer when we were there for a long time we came across this restaurant and after a very good meal we decided to make a return visit last week and again we were not disappointed. Since I did not get the time to write a review last time I thought that I must do it this time! The first time we visited Alberto’s in the summer was the night of the World Cup quarter finals and the small bar was extremely busy but we went through to the restaurant and the friendly staff attended to us very efficiently and even kept us informed of the developments in the game involving Spain. This time the bar was quieter but it was late and mid-week. The same members of staff were on duty and led us to the dining room. We opted again for the Menu Especial which provides a choice of 4 starters for sharing followed by a choice of main dish from the 7-8 on offer and a choice of dessert as well as bread, mineral water and regional wine (a choice of red, rosado or white). When choosing the starters we even joked with the waiter/owner about the octopus on the menu wondering whether it was El Pulpo Paul who predicted the outcome of many of the world cup matches in the summer!
For starters we had a big plate of Surtido de Quesos Nacionales (selection of Spanish cheeses) that included a selection of mild, hard, aged and blue cheeses, the excellent Brandada de Bacalao (a cream of baked salted cod which which we also had on the earlier visit and we now also cook at home), Croquetas de Jamon Iberico and Pulpo de Feria which we were assured was not the recently-departed Pulpo Paul! By this time we were getting a bit full but we soldiered on and had the Ternasco de Aragon al Horno (the regional young lamb cooked in the oven) served with baked potatoes and the Solomillo Lechao both of which were perfectly cooked. To finish off we had the Sorbette de Limon (lemon sorbet) and the Tarta de Queso Casera (home-made baked cheese cake). The red wine that was served with the menu was the Senda de Hoyas Joven from the near-by Campo de Borja Dominacion d’ Origen which was a perfectly drinkable young wine fermented in stainless steel tanks that was fruity and easy-drinking!
Of course there is also an a la carte menu and a range of cheaper fixed price menus but the menú especiál at 28 Euros, which we had on both visits, is excellent value. There is a good wine list which is very well priced with about 40 wines representing all wine producing regions of Spain. What you get at Alberto’s is good, honest food at reasonable prices as well as an excellent service with a friendly smile. In fact, as we were waiting for the credit card authorization we were talking to the staff and looking at their wines where we noticed some wine from 1978 and when we told them that that was the year of our marriage they presented us with a bottle of it as a gift! The wine was Monasterio de Veruela Gran Reserva 1978 from the Campo de Borja Dominacion d’ Origen and, due to the airline restrictions on liquids, we decided to drink this one evening at the hotel; although the colour of the wine was showing its age, this aged Garnacha wine was still very fruity and very drinkable so we had no problem finishing the bottle! This was an excellent gift at the end of an excellent and very reasonably priced meal. We will certainly return to Alberto’s
Demetris Savva
When I was a student, my landlady’s Sunday roast will normally last over 4 days plus. This brings back memories.
E
Nov 2010