Contents:
Organic Lettuce
Organic Tomato
Oven Baked Chicken
Some Awesome Sandwich Bread from Cold Storage
Mayo
Mustard
FAKE AND PRETENTIOUS NOTES ON FOOD, WINE & RESTAURANTS.
The next 2 starters were on the specials board:
The pumpkin soup with a side of toasted bread with mini shrimps. This was odd at first when you think about it but together the soup represented creamy goodness (and I hate cream) and awesome toast with mini shrimps! What? You must be thinking. But it was good. In a unusual way.
The ox tongue tasted more like luncheon meat to me. This is not a slam of sorts but I really liked it. I never had ox tongue before but it was delicious. It came together with a croquette which was devilishly creamy and complemented with the greens on the side.
Crisp potatoes with garlic butter, salad of leaves . We ordered this as a filler and boy did we make a mistake. The potatoes were excellent but we couldn't finish it!
Slow roasted old spot pork belly with ribs glazed in ginger beer, onion squash, pearl barley and greens. This was the dish that really didn't fit on our table. Probably because the pork was too gamey and the flavor of the pork overpowered everything else in the plate. It is different from the Chinese version of the Roasted pork but similar in appearance and cut but the taste of the marinate was rolled over by the pork.
This was ordered from the specials board again. Jelly ordered the Salmon on a bed of greens. It was obviously named in a more sophisticated way but I can't remember the exact title. The salmon was a lovely pink and sumptuous. Jelly loved it.
Rib of Red Ruby beef for two with field mushrooms, greens, smoked bone marrow, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and horseradish cream. I shared this with my brother in law and I have to say this was the best pudding I have had. The steak was excellent, it came medium rare, the potatoes, were great. Have I ever said that I love meat and potatoes together? Drool. the sauce was romantically drizzled on the meat and the watercress with steak always gives the meat more edge. Love it!
We also ordered the Iberico Sandwich. Now this is a play on what is available around many of Barcelona's bakeries around town but this was the best Iberico sandwich of them all. The Iberico was smooth, fatty, and luscious. Not gamey, thick or difficult to chew like those served in Singapore at all. Olive oil drizzled on the freshly baked bread made this sandwich simply heavenly.