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Octubre 14th, 2009
Paris, by Eva López.

This time, ñam ñam correspondent is Eva López, also known as Eva Galáctica. Bienvenue à Paris!

It’s obvious that Parisians know how to sell themselves and that they care about aesthetics. I love to see so many delicious and colourful things together.

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Most of the shop windows are a pleasure for your eyes. A clear example of this fact is Ladurée. This patisserie exists since 1871 and their speciality are macarons; a delicacy that, if I’m not wrong, the Queen of England orders daily to accompany her five o’clock tea. It was totally worth it to wait the huge cue at their Champs Elysées shop (75, avenue des Champs Elysées) to taste and enjoy some amazing pastries. I had a “chasson aux pommes” and a “mini pain tout chocolat” that cost 2,10 € and 1,15 € respectively, and that’s not expensive at all because each bite is a delight, and the place is so beautiful. Of course, I followed the tradition of buying a little box of macarons, I opted for the Loboutin limited edition box that had 6 different flavours, you can choose between vanilla, coffee, chocolate, pistachio, lemon, caramel, strawberry, liquorice, etc. The colours are so amazing that you don’t believe they are real, but of course they are, and so yummy!

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Another place that captured my attention was Café Blanc Courrèges (40 Rue François). André Courrèges is my favourite designer and I couldn’t leave Paris without paying a visit to his shop. The shop has a Café-Restaurant, decorated following the Courrèges style. It has two floors, where the walls, seats, floor and even the spiral staircase are completely white. The food is not especially good, but it’s not expensive and I liked it. There’s not a wide range of choices, and they serve it on a plastic plate, because most of the people buy here for take-away. A Ravioli with cheese salad, plus a soft drink, bread and a chocolate and pear muffin cost me 11,40 €.

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A place where I enjoyed the food a lot was the restaurant of the Jacquemart-André Museum (158, Boulevard Haussmann). This museum was created to exhibit the private collection that the Jacquemart-Andrés reunited during their years together. They donated their mansion, built during the 19th century, alongside with their private collection. The Café is located at the mansion and is considered one of the most beautiful Parisian cafés. For 16,50 € I had a mozzarella and tomato quiche with side salad, and a delicious dessert made with yoghourt, raspberry and mint. I was with 3 more friends and each of us ordered a different dessert. We had a cookies and blueberries cake, apple cake and, of course, chocolate cake.
Bon Appétit!

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Octubre 14th, 2009
Jon Sabín

Jon Sabín is an illustrator, a design teacher, a skater and the father of an adorable kid called Elvis. During years, together with his twin brother, he edited the fanzines Cateados and Chachi!, apart from collaborating as a journalist for magazines as AB and some others related to skate.

His veggie soldiers -like him, that has been 15 years without eating meat despite feeling certaing yearning for the taste of chorizo- were conceived for decorating the wall of a restaurant, but he has customized them especially for ñam ñam.

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Octubre 11th, 2009
Lateral, Madrid.

This is a chain of restaurants and simply that usually turns me off. But I’ve been here before and I remembered that they have a very interesting wines menu plus that I didn’t spend a lot of money for good food, two reasons that make me like a place. So, when I was walking through Plaza de Santa Ana, with my friend Geordon Nicol, in search of a place where we could have a drink, and after checking that there were no free tables available in the terraces, I suggested that we could go inside Lateral.

The decoration of the place is very Scandinavian style. I especially like the white marble bar.

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We ordered Spanish omelette, and that was not a good choice. The outside of it it’s perfectly cooked, but the inside is quite raw. I can see what they wanted to achieve here, but I like my omelette cooked, if it’s not too much asking.

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The ham croquettes were delicious, smooth, tasty, with big pieces of ham. We left two on the plate because we were full and now I’m missing them.

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Geordon ordered a spinach salad with chicken, apple, celery, grated carrot and onion, which was pretty good.

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I opted for the candied duck salad with watercress, rocket and cornsalad with tangerine vinaigrette and pink pepper. It was not bad, not at all, but they are too generous with the pink pepper. It should be called pink pepper salad, and then I would have not ordered it and I would have been happier.

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Our drink choice was Absolut vodka with diet coke.

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The price of this meal was 34 €. We had lunch at Lateral Plaza de Santa Ana, 12, Madrid.

Octubre 8th, 2009
Oli en un llum, Barcelona.

When my friend Sonia Doménech suggested that we could go for a late dinner to have a “posh sandwich” at a place called Oli en un Llum, I was not too sure about what I was going to find there.

It has too floors. Upstairs it is a cocktail bar, and downstairs you can have dinner till late hours. The decoration is posh and modern, not especially beautiful, and the music that sounds is Moloko, Jamiroquai and that kind of stuff. But we are not here for the music.

The restaurant offered some olives  while we waited for our order.

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We ordered pickled white anchovies, with white tuna and chillies.

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A beef burguer and a butifarra black sausage and pine nuts sandwich with ciabatta bread. Both of them absolutely delicious.

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Our wine choice was a bottle of Figuero (Ribera del Duero), pretty good. The wine menu at this place presents an excellent selection, but quite pricey.

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I finished the dinner with an Absolut vodka with diet coke.

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Oli en un Llum opens Monday to Sunday from 19:30 to 02:00, and is located at Bon Pastor 6 bis, Barcelona.

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