Sa Gambina

This post, confusingly enough, is about Monday night's dinner, our first of two in Cadaqués. Our materials from Catalan Adventures had recommended three restaurants: Casa Anita, which is closed on Mondays; Don Quijote, which is next door to our hotel but looks to be closed for the season; and Sa Gambina. So we went to Sa Gambina. We had snails (cargols) in a tomato sauce, and that was pretty good, as was the bottle of cava we ordered. Less good was the paella mixta -- dried out, with overcooked mussels and iodine-y shrimp, and the first thing we've had here that was overly salty. The dessert, which was the Cadaqués specialty of Taps de Cadaqués, was a play on sponge cakes (shaped like mushrooms, tall like an Italian panettone) steeped in rum, and flambéed at our table. It burned forever, but the cakes still tasted like raw rum.

Here is one of the MANY pictures we took at Dalí's house.