We wandered around the ghost town of Vic, Spain looking for a bit of lunch. As I said before, this down was dead — Zombie Apocalypse dead. As we started making our way back to the car, we stumbled upon a small restaurant called El Jardinet – it was open, but empty.
The chef/owner greeted us and walked us to the back garden for lunch. MS asked for an English menu for me, but they had none – they had menus just in Catalan and French. Good enough for us (while I suspect they had a Spanish menu around too, it wasn’t offered). I told the chef that I am studying French and he walked me through everything on the menu in French…and surprisingly I understood a vast majority of it — and was able to explain some of it to MS who was reviewing the Catalan menu. Ultimately we managed to figure out the menu and order lunch.
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| Lunch Menu |
Of course we started off our lunch with a bit of water and a nice bottle of white wine.
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No lunch is complete
without water and wine |
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By the glass or the bottle?
No questions here. |
We both started with the gazpacho with shrimp and ham — it was amazing! I don’t think I’ve ever had gazpacho with ham — it totally makes the soup. Hell, ham would make any soup so much better, eh?
For our entree we each had a great paella – MS had a black paella and I just had a lobster paella. The food was so great. I do love some lobster, but really hate when I have to fight with the shells — it’s just a big pain in the neck for me. The servings were so big, we could have easily shared one paella — but since we are Americans we did eat a huge portion…and still had room for dessert.
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| Flourless Chocolate Cake |
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| Flan |
This stop on our road trip to Toulouse started out a little rough – an empty town, nothing really to do and almost no food to speak of, but it really turned around when we found a fantastic little Catalan restaurant and an amazingly gracious chef/owner.
Have you been to Vic? Do you love Catalan food? Don’t you love when someone adds a pork product to an already great dish — making it even better?
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