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sekelmaan

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  1. I went to Palena last Friday for the first time. We sat in the dining room and all ordered the five course meal. One member was allergic to shellfish and ordered two from the four course side to supplement. This was lucky as the squab live mousse was the highlight of the meal. The mousse was outstanding. The other highlights were the excellent homemade pumpernickel bread. There was a course with veal heart and veal meatballs (they were very heavy with white pepper) which was excellent. The dessert was a mini-soufflé and was delicious and amazingly rich. The calamari and shrimp salad was light and nice. The small calamari were cooked perfectly, it must have been seconds. The lobster course was very nice as well, but my tail had not been cleaned and the intestinal vein was removed by yours truly. The lowlights included an over-cooked risotto that was so salty it was not edible to two people at the table and it was supposed to have bone marrow in it, but it was nominal and difficult to find. There was a pici which was very nice, but the rabbit was difficult to find and again it was heavily salted. The service was not very impressive. Though they were technically proficient there was no passion or interest or warmth. This is fine I am sure with some people, but it felt to me like they were just grinding it out. The last thing I would say on the negative was they seated us twenty minutes late (which is no big deal on a Friday night, even with a reservation) but then it took another twenty minutes to get our first of two amuse bouches.
  2. I tried this place on Saturday. We ordered a cubano and a chivito and split them. This is, as stated, way too much food for one sitting. The fries were thin and cold, but really quite irrelevant. The cubano was one of the best versions of this sandwich I have had ever. The pork was roasted (seven hours) and pulled. It was moist and a little fatty and omg, not sliced. As I was bragging about how awesome the cubano was, the wife was saying hers was better, without even trying the cubano. She was right. The chivito was one amazing sandwich. Especially the little acid the red peppers and mushrooms gave it as well as the olives tartness. Side by side the chivito blows the cubano out of the water, but if you go in for a couple cubanos, they will be the best cubanos in the area.
  3. We went to Kora last night and it was very disppointing. You are welcome to read my review. The one thing that caught my attention is that the tiramisu did not look like the above picture at all. The one we had last night was small, round, very thin layers, sadly not very tasty either.
  4. Hello! My name is Christiaan and I am a foodaholic. It has been 2 hours since my last bite and I don't know if I can make it without another. Anyway. I just wanted to say hi and mention how pleased I am to have found this great board. Looking forward to a lot of great foodaholic chitchat. -C.
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