{"id":10561,"date":"2014-10-01T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2014-10-01T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:10:54","slug":"dinner-at-canete-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/dinner-at-canete-barcelona","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Ca\u00f1ete, Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So it was Monday evening in Barcelona. Fiona, Trevor, Treve and I headed down from the hotel to the Pla\u00e7a Catalunya, and from here down the tourist-infested but still very attractive La Rambla. Then, up a graffiti-encrusted street right just after the opera house we came to Ca\u00f1ete Barra, which had been recommended to us. It was everything you’d want from a high-end tapas bar.
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We sat at the bar, the best place to be, and went through a succession of beautifully executed small plates. Considering the bustling nature of the place \u2013 full to the seams, even on a Monday night \u2013 service was really good.
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My favourite dish, apart from the fabulous padron peppers (which is always my favourite), was a Spanish take on a corn dog. I’ve never had a corn dog, and Treve says that I don’t need to go out of my way to try one, but this was really tasty \u2013 a thin chorizo sausage fried in a pancake coating. It was delicious.
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We had lots of fried things. There’s something immensely comforting about food that has been fried, although you can have too much of a good thing. So we had some vegetable dishes too, including a brilliant riff around the theme of green beans.
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To drink? Beer to start. We were hardly hungry, having finished a gazillion course three-michelin star-type lunch at 5 pm, so beer seemed a good beginning. Although they didn’t have a proper beer list, just a couple of average St Moritz beers on tap. Then we went to Cava, and from there to the Petalos Bierzo: comfort Spanish red wine for me.
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The Cava was a new one to me that came highly recommended: Juve y Camps, and it was really good, in a pure, bright, fruity style. The Petalos was its usual generous, balanced, fresh fruity self, and both were relative bargains in the mid-20 Euros, if I recall correctly (actually, the Cava might have crept into the 30s. Whatever).
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Such a fun evening, and it was testament to the quality of the Ca\u00f1ete food that even though we had arrived pretty full, we still managed to eat lots over a prolonged period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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