Anyway we went back to one of our favourite restaurant, Solar dos Presuntos (http://www.solardospresuntos.com). The restaurant first opened in October 1974. Inside of the restaurant the walls are covered with photographs and drawings of celebrities and foreign dignitaries who ate there, adding an unique atmosphere.
Anyway, we ordered our favourite item from the menu - salt baked sea bass, yes literally the whole 1kg of fish is covered by rock salt mound and baked to perfection whilst retaining softness, moisture and "ocean" flavours! It takes for a while to get the fish cooked but it's worth waiting for.
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| Our salt-baked sea bass - it was around 1.1 kg in weight before cooking |
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| This was our sea bass - before being covered in salt mound for baking. Sorry, Fish... but if any consolation, you were really delicious and well appreciated! |
Once baked, they will then crack the salt-mound open, scraped the salt off the fish, de-boned, filleted and serve on plates. Yummy.... My husband took a video on this but unfortunately I could not upload on this blog, pity that you could not see this. You just have to see what was on my plate!
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| Perfectly baked fish served with spinach and garlic flavoured potatoes. |
Oh, while we were waiting for our fish to be ready, we had some starter - this one was marinated octopus. It was really delicious, octopus being really lovely and tender.
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| Marinated octopus. |
There was so much fish to eat, I did not have any room left for dessert but my husband managed to have egg custard and really enjoyed it too.
The restaurant has this following quote displayed up on the wall from Jean Moliere (1622 - 1673), French playwright and actor.
"With my stomach satisfied, my soul may rest at ease."Need no say more.
That's all forks!
2 comments:
If you're still in Lisbon, you should try the restaurant "Pitéu" in Largo da Graça. I think you'll like it if you want to try traditional portuguese food. Of course you can always try "Gambrinus" not far from "Solar dos Presuntos", but it's far more expensive. I recomend you to try "Zé Varunca", near "Solar dos Presuntos" too, if you want to try traditional food from the Alentejo region. By far my favorite region in Portugal.
Dear Pintovsky
Thank you very much for your message. I wish we could try the restaurants you mentioned whilst we were in Lisbon. If we ever return, and I am sure we will, we would definitely try traditional food, especially from the Alentejo region as we did not have any chance to do so other than trying Alentejo wines.
Once again, thank you for reading my blog.
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