Wild meal from Albert Adria’s Enigma in Barcelona. Very bold, creative, and boundary pushing cuisine served in an otherworldly dining room with a very fun staff. Really enjoyed this meal. There were a few food misses, but overall I found the creativity and playfulness of the food very exhilarating.
Four different ages of prawns, each with a different sauce
White asparagus in a miso sauce (great texture from the labor intensive knife work)
Pan con tomate with anchovy (bread was actually meringue)
A piece of foie gras cured table side in anchovy salt (texture and taste was almost identical to eating an anchovy)
Freeze dried tomato with kumquat
Sea cucumber with a teriyaki-like sauce
Bone marrow flan with lentils
Sea cucumber escabeche
Lobster salad with pesto and Guindilla pepper jelly veil
by Different-Run7276
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That multigenerational prawn family is…something.
Glad it was a good experience though.
Something about the plating here is unsettling to me… but glad you enjoyed.
I went here last year and it’s the only meal in my entire life I’ve walked out of. Some of the worst food I’ve had and the wait staff was awful.
I look back on it humorously now. My favorite story from that night is a waiter asked “how are things?”
And I said “honestly, pretty bland and others bad.”
He said “amazing.” And walked away
This is the Michelin version of the banana taped on the wall
Might taste amazing, but that is some of the ugliest looking food I’ve ever seen on here.
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That prawn dish so fucking rad.
This looks… bad
Everything looks slimy
> A piece of foie gras cured table side in anchovy salt (texture and taste was almost identical to eating an anchovy)
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
I’m glad you enjoyed it, but this was definitely my biggest dining disappointment of the last year.
I found the dishes creative but not actually delicious, and the presentation so very lacking. Just different shades of brown and off white.
I’m glad they didn’t take me off the waitlist as a solo diner
Some of the plates look interesting though some do look like they’d need to be touched a lot by someone to finish. Everything appear to be dishes that are >95% pre-made. Seems like I’d want to go out for something else to eat immediately after I step out of the place.
The plating is not good.
Jesus christ
Just give me a paella. Such pretentious shit.
I went a few weeks ago with a similar menu. Def one of the biggest let downs I’ve had unfortunately. Some really interesting flavors and obvious skill in cooking, but nothing that I was left thinking this is GOOD.
Service was super strange to me too. They asked me to wait for two courses to use the restroom, and then each course was a bite and 10 minutes apart. I got annoyed and just went and they were PISSED when I came back lol
Im sure it was a cool meal but that first dish you can see the mountain of stabilizers they used. There’s a whole kelp forest in that sauce.
The embryotic nature of some of those plates makes me extremely uncomfortable.
Hope you liked it, but it looks meh.
Out of curiosity, which dishes were the biggest misses and why?
I genuinely thought ‘we eat first with our eyes’ was gospel but I guess not.
Never mind the food letdown…WTF is that menu design?!
This place was amazing pre-covid. You actually moved through the restaurant as the meal progressed and finished in a speakeasy with amazing drinks and desserts.
Some of those presentations can go fuck themselves
WHY is fancy pants food so often sooooo…. Un-visceral? The textures look homogeneous – I’m so tired of (usually) men chefs thinking that pounding nature into submission is such a show of craft and creativity. Ugh.
The best meals make me feel connected to the seasons and the place – they make me use all my senses to know I’m alive and a part of this world.
I hope your meal was amazing – but it looks kinda sad.
Mannn hell nawl. I bet the flavors were flavoring, though.