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Birthday Boy!

Friday 8th June was the final Friday of the Ruta de las Tapas, but we didn’t continue it as it was Ian’s birthday! I won’t embarrass him by giving his age away LOL! The day before it was our friend Marie’s birthday, and next week is my birthday! YIKES three Geminis!

Anyway, after a very pleasant swim in our pool in the morning, we decided to have a trip into town to Little Havana, where we went last Saturday on the Ruta de las Tapas. We loved the sample of tapas that we had and vowed to go there again. Well, they didn’t disappoint! They don’t have a menu as such, but have set tapas at just 1.50€ each, so we ordered the mixed tapas. This consisted of Rib stew, Stuffed red pepper, Cuban meatballs Chicken & chorizo ragu, Argentinian empanadas and an Enfusion fruits & prawns with a chilli kick. To finish off we had a lovely strawberry cocktail! Excuse the half eaten food in the photo, but at least we remembered to take one LOL!

OK, so onwards and upwards, as they say. After resting at home it was quickly time to go to Puerto del Rosario, where we were meeting our friend, Marie, at her favourite restaurant, La Chica del Pomodoro.

What a fabulous meal we had at this restaurant! We started off with the prawns which came on a long stick, covered in angel hair and with a tartar sauce. Oh my that was delicious! We also decided to have the cheesy bread which was gorgeous, but I think we had enough food without that! We then went on to have the steak medallions, which was cooked to perfection. It was with a lovely rich sauce with potatoes and veggies on the side. At the risk of repeating myself; Oh my that was delicious! The staff were great too! We can thoroughly recommend this place. We just wish we lived closer as it means either an expensive taxi ride for us, or Ian can’t have a drink.

My apologies for the poor quality photos, which really do not do the food justice!  My only excuse is that I was simply too eager to tuck in! As usual, click the photos to enlarge!

Restaurant 15, Caleta de Fuste

Last Sunday Ian didn’t feel like cooking a meal, so we decided to go out to one of the local restaurants in Caleta de Fuste, and chose Restaurant 15. We went at about 2.30 in the afternoon. Typical Spanish cafes and restaurants would be busy at this time of day, but being slightly off the beaten track and in a tourist area that caters mainly for the English (who generally eat lunch earlier), we had the restaurant to ourselves! The lady serving us was lovely! She offered us their brunch menu, but also said we could order off their main menu if we preferred, even though they didn’t usually start serving that until much later.

You’ll find Restaurant 15 about half way down the main street. You won’t see it from the street as it is down stairs.  Look for The Cave Lounge Cafe and you’ll see the entrance marked Restaurants and Bars to its left. Go through and down the stairs and you will find Restaurant 15 around to the left.

Restaurant 15 has an unusual way of doing their menu. In their words, the menu works as a league table of 15 favourite meals. Basically they have a chalk board of 15 meals. Each week the most popular moves to the top and the least popular drops off to be replaced with a new meal. We thought this a very clever way of working.

Anyway, choosing was difficult because they all sounded so gorgeous! But in the end we both decided to go with number 15, which was Bacon wrapped fillets of pork with a mango sauce, goats cheese and peppercorn and Guinness sauce, and was presumably the new dish for that week.

Having got our drinks and ordered our meal, we were given a traditional complimentary tapas of allioli, which looked home-made, and bread.

We had an enjoyable wait for the main course, which was to be expected as they were only set up for serving brunch!  Nevertheless it wasn’t that long, and the chef came out to apologise for the wait!

The main course came and we took our first mouthful.  OMG!  The sauce was absolutely divine!  The whole meal was really delish and I would have no hesitation in recommending this restaurant.

We were really stuffed after eating, but Ian wanted a desert and had a lovely piece of chocolate cake and ice-cream. Excuse the photo but he started to tuck in before I could take it!