| WEDNESDAY
MARCH 4, 2009 |
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Like It's 1998 |
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As
the recession is threatening to wipe out all
the financial gains made over the last decade,
I suppose it's only appropriate that the
culinary world backtracks too. So this week
sees Michelin-starred eatery El Racó
d'En Freixa make a return to 1998. |
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These
were the heydays of the Montignac Diet and protein
gluttony, and the new menu is suitably heavy
with plates like butifarra and cod with pigs
feet, and a renaming to "Freixa Tradició"
on the side. Yes, as
current fashions dictate, this is another
place that revisits the rustic, traditional
cuisine.
The occasion (and the 1998 reference), however,
is Ramon Freixa's departure to Madrid, and the
handing back of the reins to daddy Josep Maria,
who ran the place up until then. And pa is no
slouch in the kitchen, gaining his own Michelin
star when he was manning the pots.
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As for the doomsayers who see this as
further evidence of Barcelona's decline
vis-à-vis Madrid, let's remind
them that we won the title back in '98.
And even if, as in La Liga, Madrid is
closing in, the Michelin star score is
still 16-10 to Barcelona.
Freixa
Tradició - opening March
8
Sant Elíes 22, Sant Gervasi -
93 209 7559
Tuesday-Saturday 13-15:30h, 21-23:30h
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by
AAl |
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