Spain dominates ranking of classic ‘heritage’ restaurants across Europe
The list ranks “outstanding restaurants that have quietly, or not so quietly, been turning out consistently excellent food…”
The list ranks “outstanding restaurants that have quietly, or not so quietly, been turning out consistently excellent food…”
Sometimes you find yourself eating at a restaurant that is so abysmal and so dire beyond redemption, that your entire paradigm of good and bad shifts downward a couple of notches. Restaurants that I had formerly deemed mediocre and unworthy suddenly shine like gilded beacons of culinary excellence by comparison.
One of the dishes I was so impressed with during a recent cooking class at the Maya Kitchen was the paella de cordero. It was one of the recipes demonstrated by chef Miguel Angel de Alba, whose father, Anastacio de Alba, founded a chain of Spanish restaurants in Manila, including the now iconic Alba Restaurante Español.
Spain’s bitter financial crisis is eating away at the country’s high-end restaurant scene, with the owners of another top establishment saying it will have to close at the end of August.
Six of Manila’s Spanish restaurants will feature a culinary showcase of Spanish cuisine in a one-month long Tapas Festival for the annual Flavors of Spain celebration this October.
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