Having covered my immediate area, I will now have to backtrack to all the restaurants I have visited so far - as it is a restaurant review blog the specific dates don't matter hugely - although places can change - but as I wasn't planning a blog at the time there won't be much detail!
However, this week I visited Els Senyorets in Gandia for a menu del dia. Els Senyorets is on the main Paseo in Gandia at the end furthest from the market. It has a few tables outside but inside is a nice bar and restaurant area. We ate in the restaurant which had a few people in it but was not busy. The welcome was friendly and the service good.
The menu del dia is €8.50 and consists of 3 courses, coffee, bread and a drink. I had a sauteed spinach dish for starters which was very good - loads of flavour and very tasty, and my lunch buddy had ensalada del dia, which was a light chicken salad with a sauce and which went down very well. We both had arroz del negro - rice blackened with squid ink and containing baby squid. It was served with a dollop of ali-oli and frankly it was delicious. I had a decent glass of house white wine and my buddy had a beer.
For dessert there were at least 5 choices and we both plumped for calatrava, a spanish bread pudding with a 'flan' type topping - I had never had it before and it was lovely and moist and had a rich caramel flavour offset by the base. Clearly home made and delicious.
Coffee to round off the meal and we were out of the restaurant a couple of hours after we went in, feeling we had just enjoyed an extremely good lunch at a bargain of €17.50 between us.
Interestingly, and a first as far as I have seen so far, Els Senyorets has a lighter, lower calorie lunch, which on Monday was one of the starters and one of the mains from the main menu - espinanca - spinach and pechuga a la plancha - chicken breast. This means that once my diet starts again (ugh!) I can eat there and feel positively virtuous about it!!!
I would definitely return for lunch or try it for dinner and even better on a Friday night they are currently doing everything for a euro - got to be one of the best value nights out in town!!
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Monday, 16 September 2013
Let's start at the very beginning...
...a very good place to start.
I now live in La Drova, a hamlet just outside of Barx, which is a mountain village about 20 minutes from Gandia, which is a small city about an hour south of Valencia. Gandia also has a beach resort, Gandia Playa, which is one of the biggest Spanish beach resorts in Spain. The region is generally known as La Safor
I have lived here for a year and while I have always enjoyed Spanish food, I had no idea how good and what good value, Spanish restaurants and bars can be.
Having been here a year, I have eaten in a fair few in Gandia, in Barx and around and in Valencia. I now have a lunch buddy, Nigel and he has persuaded me to start a food blog so at least once a month we will try out a different restaurant in Gandia and report back to you. I will of course also do a retrospective, which will take some time! and mention other places where I happen to eat out.
I'm not a food connoisseur, but do like my food and enjoy good food, whether that is a menu del dia in the village or Restaurante Riff, a Michelin starred restaurant in Valencia, of which more later.
Spain is a land where food is very important to the people. The Valencian paella is much revered and argued over, and Gandia is home to Fidua, a seafood version of paella made with noodles instead of rice and served all over Valencia region. Every holiday or fiesta is marked with food. The Spaniards enjoy their beer and wine, but food is the main event and never would drink so much that it ruins their enjoyment of their meal. Tapas vary by area and sometimes by town and although basically Spanish food is the same all over Spain, the number of regional variations, or produce and dishes special to specific towns means it is also quite varied!
So enough of the introduction and I will start to cover some of the places I have eaten so far.
I now live in La Drova, a hamlet just outside of Barx, which is a mountain village about 20 minutes from Gandia, which is a small city about an hour south of Valencia. Gandia also has a beach resort, Gandia Playa, which is one of the biggest Spanish beach resorts in Spain. The region is generally known as La Safor
I have lived here for a year and while I have always enjoyed Spanish food, I had no idea how good and what good value, Spanish restaurants and bars can be.
Having been here a year, I have eaten in a fair few in Gandia, in Barx and around and in Valencia. I now have a lunch buddy, Nigel and he has persuaded me to start a food blog so at least once a month we will try out a different restaurant in Gandia and report back to you. I will of course also do a retrospective, which will take some time! and mention other places where I happen to eat out.
I'm not a food connoisseur, but do like my food and enjoy good food, whether that is a menu del dia in the village or Restaurante Riff, a Michelin starred restaurant in Valencia, of which more later.
Spain is a land where food is very important to the people. The Valencian paella is much revered and argued over, and Gandia is home to Fidua, a seafood version of paella made with noodles instead of rice and served all over Valencia region. Every holiday or fiesta is marked with food. The Spaniards enjoy their beer and wine, but food is the main event and never would drink so much that it ruins their enjoyment of their meal. Tapas vary by area and sometimes by town and although basically Spanish food is the same all over Spain, the number of regional variations, or produce and dishes special to specific towns means it is also quite varied!
So enough of the introduction and I will start to cover some of the places I have eaten so far.
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