[Tuckerman]

This restaurant, in a suburb of Gerona, and has a mere two stars but IMO provided just the right balance between original and inventive technique and a delicious meal.

Occasionally the 13 course (excluding amuses and petit fours ) tasting menu veered into Adriaesque unpleasantness- a sou vide cooked egg yolk with sea urchins and black pudding juice for example (yuk).But by and large one could discern reason and harmony in the combos and three or four dishes were truly outstanding:

The best-a beautiful Foie Gras nougat dusted with cocoa which dissolved gloriously on the tongue yielding beautiful long, deep flavours.

A lobster puree-like lobster custard in texture, studded with green jewels of mint oil and served with a mint foam and a swirl of cocoa (again) beneath the puree-lobster and mint sounds unlikely but the mint was played right down and the puree sang of fresh lobster, with the chocolate pinging in a perfect end note

A "soup" of Comte cheese and onion-the cheese and onion combo for foodies, comfort food of the most refined kind

Lightly smoked pigeon with rice infused with intense pigeon stock like a pigeon risotto.

This menu (the chef's "surprise" menu) cost 85 Euros and we drank lots of fabulous wines at prices lower than you could buy retail in London. An excellent, inventive, satisfying meal, and a bargain to boot.

[ginger milk]

Agreed, a stunning meal in the main with an equally amazing wine list that certainly helped to enhance the overall experience.

I would return to Girona to visit this place alone.