8 days in Portugal-5-11 to 5/18/2022

Day 3- Basque-Chef's menu-5/13/2022

The next course is brought out on a wooden tray and then served to our table.

Fried brioche, smoked eel croquettes, pickled onion and chive emulsion.

The brioche was fried so the exterior was crunchy and so tasty.

Hoa also ordered a bottle of red wine.

The interior of the brioche was rich and the smoked eel filling was simply delicious.  I could probably eat 10 of these.

From our table we could see the chef preparing our next course.

Grilled mussels with smoky flavors.

The mussels were very tasty and has a very nice smoky flavors.

We polished the whole dish including the sauce- Cheers!

The next course was loaded into a wooden tray and brought to our table.

The tray looks so impressive.

Our waitress proceed to pour water on top of a layer of seaweed inside the tray and as you can see a formation of fog rising up.

How cool is this?

Rock fish served with "Bilbaina" sauce, scallops in brown butter foam, chives emulsion, red Pequillo peppers, potatoes and mushrooms.

The rock fish has a nice consistency, we also loved the scallops in a rich brown butter with chives emulsion. 

Chef preparing our next dish.

Chef inspecting the dish before sending it out to our table.

Our waitress brought out a grill to our table.

Pork Spare Ribs confit and finished on charcoal.

OMG, the meat just melted in our mouth!  So delicious.

It was served with heart of Romaine lettuce and a tomato salsa.  Refreshing and light.

Table set up for desserts.

Coffee for both of us.

Chocolate soufflé with gelato and crème Anglaise.

Cannot go wrong with ending our meal with a tasty Chocolate soufflé with gelato and crème Anglaise.

Loved everything here!

At the end of our meal, the chef stopped by to se if we liked the meal and we chit chat a bit.  It was very nice of him to give us a few minutes of his time.

Overall, we had a great meal here, excellent service, and the ambiance was relax and very friendly.

NEXT.... Day 4- Faro, Old City