Good morning!
Back in our room after a lovely breakfast, and writing about dinner yesterday evening at Bistro Barao. Our reservation was for 6:45 pm so we went out around 6:15 to look around Evora. It is truly a lovely, small walled city – and I do love walls! Evora itself is spotlessly clean and tidy – even though there are lots of wires going everywhere and into different buildings as we walked up the street. Our restaurant was very easy to find – go to the corner, turn right, and walk six blocks – and it was still there, as we had last seen it in 2019 on our first visit. How nice!
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We were the first people there – again, Surprise! And we even got our same little table from our previous visit! (Note: There are only six tables in the entire restaurant, so not that hard to remember!) We started with sparkling water – airplanes are so dehydrating.
Their starters for the evening were a plate of two cheeses (one hard, one very soft, like butter) and a nice plate of Portuguese “black” ham – R’s very favorite Iberian food, and one of the main reasons he wanted to return here for his birthday! (The ham is almost black as the huge pigs are left to graze contentedly in orchards with acorns; makes for a very distinctive and wonderful flavor!). For mains, we had a T-bone for two, cooked rare and served with vegetables. Everything was amazingly tastiful and seriously, the reason we went there in the first place. This was served with a bottle of one of their house red wines – a single grape varietal from the local region – wonderful! After that, for dessert, R had their poached pear with wine and ginger ice cream and I had their black forest cake dark chocolate sauce. YUM!
As it turned out, we were joined at the two other tables in “our” room, by two couples we had glimpsed in our hotel. The first, Brad and Janice, were from Idaho, and the second, (names not known at this time) were from Seattle. A west-coast room! As we were finishing up our wine, Brad and Janice were ordering dessert – and one of their choices included CHOCOLATE CAKE! Now, let me only say that if R’s favorite Iberian things was their ham, one of my all-TIME favorites is chocolate cake! So, for the first time I can ever remember, I (we) had TWO desserts! Wow! Excellent cake, washed down with a lovely glass of port. Then, to add to the occasion, we were treated to two complimentary glasses of a lovely yellow-colored liquor – slightly resembling Lemoncello, but (if possible!) even better! Roll me home, that’s for sure! Somehow found our way back to the hotel, and in for the night!
Much love and more later!
m
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