Sunday, May 04, 2008

Is this the best menu del dia in the world?

The local Time Out’s latest issue (the cover price is back to €1 which sounds like it is not doing too well) has a cover story on the city’s best menu del dias – the three course fixed lunch menus that you can find all over the city for €10-20.

 The  menu del dia was an invention of the Franco era, designed to keep the workers near the factory at lunchtime rather than go home to eat and siesta with the wife. No longer compulsory, they are still an attractive way for a restaurant to bring  in lunch time custom and use up last’s leftovers.

 They missed the best one. On Friday, Sarah and I went to Alkimia, the one-Michelin starred restaurant near the Sagrada Familia, and one of the vanguard of new Catalan cooking, where they have just introduced a €32 menu del dia. By the time they’d added on the cover charge, wine and VAT, it was a grand total of €85, or £34 a head. I imagine there are plenty of similar restaurants around the world where you can’t get a main course for £34. If it was designed to face up to the recession now gripping Spain, it seems to be working. The restaurant was near full by 2.30pm.

Nor was it yesterday’s leftovers. The starters were a shot glass of tomato consommé with croutons (a nice play on pan con tomate) and a beautifully textured jellied foie, granola and apple. 

There were three main courses, each with a choice; artichoke salad or marinated salmon, a poached egg in broth or chicken ravioli, then braised lamb or cod. All exquisitely prepared, presented and served, as were the desserts and petit fours, particularly the skewered ball of vanilla ice cream covered in white chocolate.

 It would take a brave person to tackle either the €54 menu (three starters/five mains/two desserts) or even the €68 12-course special, but hopefully I will get a chance to try.

38 comments:

Trig said...

Sounds like you had a good meal and the prices are very competitive. I think I went on a bad day last time.

You are right about the value for money - I'd like to see anyone eat food of this level in London for anything like the prices we charge in Barcelona. And even there, some visitors find it expensive.

If you haven't eaten with us at Comerç 24, you must come some time. I'd be interested to read your comparisons.

All the best
Trig

Núria said...

Hola! I've been at Alkimia once, just before they got the Michellin star, and I enjoyed it a lot.
Good to know they have a daily menu with a lower price :D.

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