I didn't realize that I had booked a fancy one Michelin-starred place for dinner tonight. I was actually just looking up some quintessential places to eat in Girona that weren't from the Roca family, and this place happened to have availability (7 Albereda. 872-08-02-18). After I walking into that uniquely small museum-like dining room with double linens and even a napkin presentation on a tray though, I felt like I was in The Menu and got a bit concerned. The good thing was that those concerns went away pretty quickly once the food arrived.
The tasting menu was done in three acts, with the first one being a bunch of little bites, including something that looked like a croquette but was filled with a thin crayfish broth inside. There was a trout and dill creation that was encased in a chalky fondant-like structure, while their take on gilda skewers was a small green liquid-filled bite. My favorite was just mushrooms on a cracker, but they sliced the mushrooms paper-thin with a truffle shaver and paired the assembly with a deliciously savory and thin broth. It was all very playful, including some pork rillettes that just a touch of punchy orange rind that reminded me of candy from my childhood.
Proteins came in the second act, like those pheasant raviolis above. I was very fond of some crispy grilled snails sitting in a thin slice of sweet onions and an extra savory anchovy sauce, as well as a dish with small cuts of very fresh and sweet red prawns sitting in a pine nut cream that I mopped up with their awesome selection of bread. They served a suckling pig whose skin was thin and crispy yet whose meat was moist and rich. They even revisited the shaved mushrooms during the final dessert course, which was fun. That was fantastic, and best of all, it was much cheaper than what one would pay in Singapore.
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