Dinner in a Gaudi building

For the second year, we stayed in the boutique Hotel Constanza in Barcelona.  Kath and Paul discovered it a couple of years ago. What a terrific find.  Great location and great facilities and we are able to easily find our way about.

View from hotel balcony

This year we decided to have a celebratory dinner at an upmarket restaurant just round the corner from our Hotel.  The restaurant is in yet another building of Gaudi's and called Casa Calvert.

We decided on the Barcelona short tasting menu

• Autumn salad with chestnuts, pine nuts and fairy-ring mushrooms
• Monkfish with two-pepper Parmesan juice, 
• French green beans and shallot confit

• Roast rack of lamb with muscat and rosemary, ratatouille ravioli

• Chocolate cake with hazelnut praline and banana ice cream

• Bread service, mineral water, coffee

The setting was lovely, the food delicious but it is a bit difficult to get used to receiveng four courses separately when you know that about three of them could be devoured in one mouthful -no trouble whatsoever.

We did have a lovely evening and the waitress was a good photographer.