A terrific dinner!

Thursday night

Back from an amazing dinner at 3Sixty, a hotel with wine bar/café.  We read that it opened at 6 pm so headed down all those steps yet again, and found the hotel right near the port.  It is exquisite.  Why we’re not staying there, I don’t know (other than the fact that it’s very expensive…) but seriously, our room at Letonuevo is impossibly tiny, and with absolutely NO storage space, we are tripping over things just to move around.  But, back to dinner.

The room was lovely, and we were the only customers.  (The best part about eating early!)  To start, the waiter brought out some wonderful breads and then an olive oil “jam” (which really was slightly sweet) and olive oil.  Both were good. 

Beautiful room!

Rolls with olive oil jam!

For dinner, I ordered veggie-filled spring rolls to start, and R ordered their spicy chicken strips. 

Then, for mains, I ordered their chicken, which was amazing!!  It was sliced into tenderloins and stuffed with prosciutto and feta and all served in a wonderful sauce with golden raisins.  And then there was R’s stuffed pork. 

R's chicken strips

My spring rolls

Robert's T-rex from behind!

My stuffed chicken with salad

R's T-rex from the front!

Our dessert

OMG!  I’ve never, ever seen a presentation like that one.  In fact, we even took a front and back photo, as it was so amazing!  It came with shredded potato chip-like things that were wonderful.  The pork looked like the whole haunch from a tyrannosaurus rex; it was enormous!  Stuffed with a mango chutney and topped with melted cheddar cheese, it was about ten inches long, three inches wide and an inch thick.  [I don’t think I’ll need any food for the next week. – R]

After that, neither of us felt like dessert, but in what seems to be the custom in this country, we got a dessert anyway – something that tasted to me like a Grand Marnier-coconut dish.  Not to sweet, but very, very good.   We washed everything down with a dry red Merlot from this area.  (Which is apparently difficult to get, as this area specializes in something called The blood of Herakles and is sweeter rather than dry.

Robert waddled (his words) back up the steps and is now sound asleep in bed, and we still need to do photos!!

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