Olvena

Olvena

http://www.bodegasolvena.com/

This is a nice cellar that offers a visit, including three glasses of wine, for three euros.
the building is quite new and has a nice design. next posts are devoted to their wines.

Enate Tapas 2009

Enate Tapas 2009

This is a young cheap wine made by the good cellar enate. Probably it has been done to attract young people. For this reason they have use this label design. In my opinion the label is not nice nor adequate and the wine itself is not specially interesting. Although its price is around 5 eur per bottle I think that it does not offer good quality/price ratio. I have not enjoyed this wine.

Cidre de Normandie Doux duc de coeur

Cidre de Normandie Doux duc de coeur

This is a french cider with a strong apple taste. However, it reminds more the concentrated apple juice than fresh apples. Its alcoholic degree is only 2º, but it is correct.

Tosti

Moscato Freisa tosti

http://www.tosti.it/

This is a nice italian sweet sparkling wine. it reminds the framboise taste, Its cost is around 5 eur per bottle.

GIMLET

Gimlet

C/ Rec 24, Barcelona

This is a small and peaceful cocktail bar in Barcelona.

Joan d'Anguera Planella 2008

Joan d'anguera Planella 2008

http://www.cellersjoandanguera.com

This is a very nice red wine from Montsant DO. Plenty of texture, very balanced, outstanding postaste parfume. I strongly recommed it. I paid 18 eur at shunka restaurant. You can purchase it for 10 eur per bottle at the wine maker website.

shunka video

shunka video

This is a video of a nice dish. Look at the nice movements! here

Shunka

Shunka

C/ Sagristans 5, Barcelona

This is an OUTSTANDING japanese restaurant that was already commented in this blog. This time I had chance to taste the sampling menu. It has been an amazing experience for 60,3 EUR per person + drinks + tea

french oyster with sake:
meat with fresh tomato:

sardines with albahaca:

calamar, salmon, toro, "navajas",...

gambes de Palamos:

meat with mushrooms in a vieira shell (look at the fire under the shell):

dessert (made with rice and cream):

Tea (I was not satisfied with this green tea)

Corral de campanas 2007

Corral de campanas 2007

http://www.quintaquietud.com/

This is a nice wine with very good parfume and post-taste. I drank Quinta Quietud in the past and I found it too burnt and expensive. Now I tastet the young wine of Quinta Quietud and I must say that it is a nice wine. I paid 9,5 EUR at Colmado Quilez. In my opinion it should be cheaper. It does not offer a good quality/price ratio. In addition, they should improve the design and also the name.

Daoud brothers oriental sweets

Daoud brothers oriental sweets

Similar quality and presentation than the previous one. these are slightly cheaper: 1150 syrian pounds for 1 Kg.

Assorted Baklava

Assorted Baklava

http://www.mtmuhanna.com/

These are outstanding Syrian pastries. In addition they also offer a very nice wood box. The price for the box is 750 syrian pounds, and 1Kg box of pastries costs 1250 syrian pounds (1 eur = 59 syrian pounds).

Mahmoud & Tarek Al-Muhanna

Mahmoud & Tarek Al-Muhanna

http://www.mtmuhanna.com/

This is a very good producer of Syrian pastries. In this case, this is the shop of Lattakia (this is a chain of shops). they are slightly more expensive than Daoud Brothers, but they also provide very nice wood boxes.

Daoud brothers

Daoud brothers

http://www.daoudbros.com/

This is an outstanding shop that offers outstanding baklava (syrian pastries). Worth to visit. It's like a palace. This is a chain of shops, but these photos belong to the central building.

Damascus Restaurant

Damascus, Syria

This is a restaurant with a couple of terraces, one in the ground floor (on the street) and another one in the roof of the building. They offer reasonable quality, altough the brochetas were quite salted.

Papa Joseph

Papa Joseph

this is a restaurant with a nice advertisement in Damascus. I haven't tasted the meals...

Barbican

Barbican

This is a non-alcoholic beer from Dubai that provides good results when mixed with lemmon juice.

Bagdad Café 66

Bagdad Café 66

syria

This is an interesting point in the middle of the desert, at 170 km from Bagdad. worth to stop there (if you pass through this road, of course!), you will learn a lot of things about traditional houses. Really amazing!