Tag: Fish and seafood
Bulot in Gothenburg: gastronomy and seafood
Bulot, in Gothenburg, is a Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant offering French-influenced cuisine made from high-quality local ingredients in a simple, relaxed setting.
I had put Bulot on my list of restaurants to try in Gothenburg and was supposed to have dinner...
Jumbo Seafood ION Orchard in Singapore: a nice place for good chili crab
Jumbo Seafood offers a very good Chili Crab, perhaps not the best or most authentic in town, but more than enough to enjoy this local specialty if you can put up with service that is a little too mechanical.
I...
Manta restaurant in Sydney: decent food but service not up to scratch
While Manta claims to be Sydney's best seafood restaurant, my experience was much more mixed: decent but not exceptional dishes, and service that wasn't up to scratch and was sometimes even excessively colloquial.
Before leaving Melbourne for Sydney, I had...
Restaurant Espadarte in Sesimbra: bland and ordinary
A beachfront restaurant in Sesimbra, Espadarte offers dishes whose visual quality is matched only by their blandness, as well as that of the property as a whole.
For this second dinner in Sesimbra and delighted by my experience at...
Restaurant O Batel in Sesimbra: an excellent Mediterranean restaurant by the sea
O Batel is a very good and friendly restaurant serving Mediterranean cuisine by the beach in Sesimbra. Good food, warm atmosphere and pleasant service.
Although I found the cuisine at the Four Points Sesimbra to be more than adequate, going...
O Frade in Lisbon: a very good Portuguese restaurant
Continuation of my culinary adventures in Lisbon, where after a bistronomic restaurant, a gastronomic one and a totally failed experience in a typical restaurant, I decided to persist in this style by booking at O Frade, which seems to...
Restaurant Solar Dos Bicos in Lisbon: a tourist trap to avoid
Surprisingly recommended and well rated, Solar Dos Bicos in Lisbon has everything of the tourist trap: not exceptional dishes, a slow service and not very attentive to the customer. Here they do volume and that's it.
For this meal...
L’Embarcadère restaurant in Bordeaux: bland
L'Embarcadère is a well-known Bordeaux seafood restaurant, but surprisingly enough, given the city's location, the end result is rather disappointing.
After my first three dinners in Bordeaux, I wanted to take a refreshing change and decided that a seafood restaurant...
Dinner at Garnier in Paris: a safe bet for seafood
Having to stay in Paris for Christmas Eve because of the SNCF strike I took advantage of this December 25th to have dinner at Garnier, one of my favorite restaurants when it comes to fish and seafood.
Garnier's concept
It...