So I've been in Europe for 5 weeks...

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dionysus32
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So I've been in Europe for 5 weeks...

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Thought I would share the best meal I had during the holiday.

The restaurant was called Belvedere and was located at Cinque Terre in Monterosso on the coast of Italy.
It was a variety of whole seafood cooked in a clay pot for several hours with a heap of tomato, garlic, chilli etc etc and they bring it out and pour it into a huge bowl.
I counted about 30 muscles, 6 large prawns, whole octopus, whole lobster, pipis, calamari, fish and a stack of bread..

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While the Mrs did help she didn't come close to eating half of it and there was no way I was leaving anything behind from a dish that tasted so amazing.
As for the cost I can't remember exactly but I do recall calculating it in AUD and thinking it was under $200.


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Now there's a good sort of a feed. That Cinque Terre area is on our bucket list for a visit. Can't wait to get there!

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Yeah, that looks fantastic. Nothing more to say really (apart from I want some).

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I would think cooked that long that most of the shellfish would be unmercifully tough...but not the case?
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Bentley wrote:I would think cooked that long that most of the shellfish would be unmercifully tough...but not the case?
I presume things are added at different stages. Occy would get the full treatment and allow the flavours of the stock to develop. Squid could get a while to break down through to delicate things at the end. Also presuming would be a fairly low heat. Just guessing though, but that's how I'd do it.
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I ate their a few years back didnt have the soup though,
Its a nice part of the world unfortunately a lot of the world knows about it.
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Groovy Gorilla wrote:I ate their a few years back didnt have the soup though,
Its a nice part of the world unfortunately a lot of the world knows about it.
Agreed, have you been to Sardinia? much less tourists.
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No
I spent a bit over a month in Sicily that was real nice.
Not too many tourists good prices,great food,lots of good old stuff to look at.
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