Anyone else catch Bourdain's new episode about Espana?

Wow!

That's all I can say.

Wow!

Hopefully I will be able to get my tongue back in my mouth before I have to start working in the morning.

The wine, what fun - and the chocolate eggs, drooool.

Were I to go there, I'd go no farther than those. There would be no need for a sit down dinner in a restaurant.

I've been all over Europe...But I've never been to Spain.

Tonight it's Tony and Tivo and me.

There are great restaurants everywhere. And great wine for little money. We cruised the wine stores just to look. Back then the dollar and the euro were about par. The selection of wines for 3 to 5 euros was absolutely amazing. We'd have a really terrific wine with dinner and the next day go shopping for it, just to see what it retails for.

Man .... one can live (eat and drink) **really** well over there.

words in my mouth, lol.

So much food, so little time.......

I really want to visit Spain. They are doing it right over there. Must be in the water wine. ;-)

He visited it on the show.

He should get an emmy nom for that one. :D

How much did he say they cost....$200.

I made it that far in the episode and I got interupted by my husband and kid coming in after spending far too much money on a lap top for her. Grrrrrrrrrrr. (They didn't get a bad deal...just too much computer for her real needs----This sending kids to college crap is just way to expensive....Why don't they have coal mines in WA?) Anyway.....

I need the clams.....

What does that guy put in his canned shellfish?

I had to laugh when Tony said Spain was food porn. :rofl:

My husband the engineer was enraptured over the self-taught forester who became the grill king. He loved all the gadgets the guy developed for charcoal cooking.

I myself want to try the roasted green onion feast. And I've always been fascinated in tapas culture; my favorite foods are usually multiple small plates vs. a big entree.

I also want to eat at Arzak. Someday maybe (sigh). :hi:

20 years or so ago. They were in the midst of a huge drout then, so there weren't many vegetables around, but you still couldn't keep the cooks down.

It pisses me off that there is so little real Spanish cuisine around, probably because there are so few Spaniards here, and paella is the beginning and end of Spanish fare. Please, just a little lobster in green sauce for us peasants and we'll be happy for a while...

And I would kill for a tapas bar. One that starts around 9PM as God intended would be nice.

I ate at a famous restaurant by the Madrid corrida, (can't remember the name) since I wanted to see if a fighting bull tasted as bad as I thought it would. It did, and no matter how talented the chef, you just can't do much with that sinewy meat.

But, I noticed someone at the next table devouring with great relish some unrecognizable cut and asked the waier about it.

"That is Dos Huevos del Toro, and there are only eight portions of it every day the corrida is open. You can come back tomorrow and reserve yours."

So, next day I made my reservation and awaited my meal. The plate came out with two tiny little things the size and shape of olives and were lost in the sauce.

"What's this? The ones I saw yesterday were three times this size."

"But senor, the bull does not always lose."

So...just gotta know how that story ends...did you eat them? ;-)

"And I would kill for a tapas bar. One that starts around 9PM as God intended would be nice." Si, si!

on edit: subject goof

so it goes.

BTW, acceptable wines were in all the little grocery stores for under a buck a bottle, good ones for under two bucks. A hunk of cheese, a loaf of bread, a little sausage and a bottle of wine for under five bucks back then killed the need for "Dos Huevos."

And I'm glad you accidentally responded to my post. :hi:

I could understand that sad lament if you lived in Ohio or something, but NYC?


Long Island Tapas Bars
http://www.menufrog.com/restaurants.php?cuisine=Tapas

Spanish Restaurants and Tapas Bars in NYC
http://www.spanishnewyork.com/spanish-restaurants-in-new-york.html

NYC Tapas Bars
http://www.menupages.com/restaurants.asp?areaid=0&cuisineid=64&neighborhoodid=0&AdvancedResturantIds=

when I lived in NJ, the Newark area was full of incredible Spanish and Portuguese restaurants. Brazilian and Argentinian, too. I'm just bitching because Spanish is among the world's great cuisines and just hasn't gotten the respect it deserves.

(Or at least the respect I think it deserves.)

However, I'm in Detroit; no tapas here.

I have no idea how good they are, but it's probably pretty decent.

http://wdiv.cityvoter.com/winners/4-the-best-list/23/great-meals/tapas

Or something nearby:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C5/20080828/NEWS03/808280505/1110/CFP02

I've been to a few of them, and find them less than interesting, but I'll eventually check out the ones I've not been to.

What I should have said: "most tapas here are uninspired vis a vis the original idea."