Posts Tagged 'txakolí'

Best Drinks of 2011: Txomín Etxaniz

Don’t forget to cross your T’s and cross your X’s. I’m talking Txakolí.

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A Warm Welcome

This coming week is an epic one for my fellow BasqueStagers, Elisha Ben-Haim and Ruth Selby, currently embarking on their 6 month culinary journey at Restaurante Martín Berasategui.

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SS Gastronómika: A place to call home

I’d been looking forward to SS Gastronómika for years…


and for good reason.

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Sammic 50th Anniversary

Last week we catered the Sammic 50th Anniversary dinner for 30 people. We coordinated with Martín on a Basque menu, which unfortunately I have no photographic evidence of because I was busy cooking on the line…but I did manage to get a photo of the bubbly brindis (toast) at the end of the night:

burbujas

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Zarautz

Pronounced Za-rOW-tz, this seaside town was a charming lunch break after our Txakolí visit in nearby Getaria, even on an overcast day.

Zarautz

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Txakolí

Despite the rain in Spain that [doesn’t] remain only in the plains, we got up early and again we found ourselves along the narrow, dirt roads of Basque country, bumpity bumpity, this time en route to the txakolí bodega, Rezabal, in Guetaria. It’s never too early in País Vasco to drink txakolí.

Rezabal

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