More great places to eat on the Costa brava!



Well, sort of. Meaning, they aren't exactly on the coast, but they are great places to eat!

Went to Cafe de la Riba on Saturday for lunch. It's a sushi bar in Girona (Placa Independencia 12). Excellent food although the waiter told us we didn't order enough. We thought it was fine for lunch, but saying that - we don't usually eat a big lunch on a saturday. Lovely lovely tuna wrapped in sesame seeds, great ramen and really nice tuna sushi thingie. (Look - I'm no sushi expert!) Really nice decor as well, which, obviously, is a big selling point for me!

And yesterday I went out for lunch with a couple friends to Moli del Mig which is here in Torroella de Montgri. This is a new 4 star hotel/restaurant which has recently been restored. It's beautiful and what a great location! The Menu del Dia there was great - a little more than normal at 18 euros but well worth it as it was more than just 3 courses with small dishes appearing unexpectedly at the beginning and end. I thought their hotel prices were reasonable for the setting and quality (even after I realized the prices were per person..). Of course, I would have absolutely no justification for staying there, as it's only on the other side of town. Darn.

Other news... our new car is lovely and fun and all the things it should be. Yes, we finally got a PT Cruiser. What a difference to the Nissan Patrol! Which is still for sale, so someone please buy it! We've been exploring a lot in the Cruiser - accidently ended up in France the other day (as you do). It's a pleasure to drive and now I know what all the fuss is about regarding modern cars. WHo knew!

Other stuff we've been up to: Going to London for the long easter weekend, being completely overwhelmed by the amount of people in Borough Market/Oxford Street/Camden Town/etc, nipping into the Elephant's Head in Camden for a drink on saturday and realizing it's just not the same as the place Steve and I met over 10 years ago (!), meeting some great folks at the Reverend Horton Heat show and ending up at some dive of a bar called the Crowbar (or something like that), getting back home to Girona, evenings playing pool and darts in our new and finished downstairs bar, relaxing on the hammock with Inca, finishing tiling the terrace between the house and garage (that, obviously, was Steve), hooking up the ipod to work in the Cruiser (and that was me), finishing my catalan classes and appearing to show quite a bit of improvement (some may argue with that!), not yet buying a new imac because stupid adobe creative suite isn't optimized for the Intel machines (had to throw in a li'l bit of geekspeak), discovering even more good restaurants around while driving which I'll put up later as I can't remember where I left the business cards... the list goes on!


Posted: Fri - May 5, 2006 at 07:48 AM        

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