Our Tasting Menu

Tapas Tasting Menu 
“Homage to the fusion culinary tradition of the Mediterranean”

(to see the regular tapas menu, click here)

min. 2 people

The tasting menu can be adapted to culinary preferences

WE HAVE TWO TASTING MENUS AND ONE WINE PAIRING OPTION


“ZIRYAB TASTER MENU”

35.00 per person

 Includes mineral water.
Includes a taster size of all the following: 

Step 1: Starting in the Bodega…

A taster of house vermut
(or non-alcoholic aperitivo)
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Ras-el-hanout- roasted nuts
Marinated sumaque olives
Zaatar manchego cheese bites
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Winter soup of beetroot and oats

Step 2: Tapas Promenade…

Medjoul dates wrapped in bacon
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Spiced apple curry croquetas
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Halloumi cheese, pumpkin & fig jam
***
Leek cooked at low temperature with romesco sauce

Step 3: 5-Star Hotel…

Included: Patatas bravas de la casa

To choose (one per person):  

 Bacalao with chraimeh Libyan sauce
(or)
Bulgur risotto with feta (v)
(or)
Aubergine with soya and tahine (vg)
(or)
Botifarra pork sausage in a chocolate sauce
(or)
Slow-cooked chicken tagine
(or)
Spiced lamb on Lebanese flatbread pitta (supplement. 1.50 )

Step 4: Happy Endings…

Sacher cake with apricot and cardamom
Syrian baklawa treats
Mini crema catalana of ginger and lemon
Seasonal fruit with cream and sumaque


“THE COMPLETE MENU”

42.50 per person 

Includes mineral water.

In addition to all the dishes in the Ziryab taster menu, you will get to try the following:

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Aperitivo to start:

Wild Ale Atrapada
Màger Brewery
La Llacuna, Penedès (Catalonia)
Grape ale with the local Trepat grape variety

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Our house dips with home-baked mini-pitta:

– Tsatsiki of capers and minty pickles
– Pumpkin and ginger
– Chickpea hummus with paprika
– Smoked aubergine with agave nectar
– Spicy red pepper Syrian style
– Caramelised leek, bacon and goat’s cheese

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Coffee and/or digestive liqueur at the end of your meal:

             – Italian grappa
– Local limoncello with mint and ginger
– Catalan Ratafia
          – Greek ouzo
         – Galician Orujo herbal liqueur


“WINE PAIRING”

19.00 per person

A selection of wines chosen by our sommelier to accompany every step of either menu
Taster size glasses (100ml)
Includes mineral water.  

Wild Ale Atrapada
Màger Brewery
La Llacuna, Penedès (Catalonia)
Grape ale with the local Trepat grape variety (7% abv.)

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choose:

Vermut Lustau Rojo
(Winery Lustau, Jerez Andalusia)
Blend of two wines aged over 10 years using a typical sherry method.
(or)
Ube El Reventón
(Winery Cota 45, Jerez Andalusia)
Made from the grape Listán Blanco, aged under a layer of natural yeast inside the barrel. Notes of sherry.

+ tapa of cured Iberian ham “paletilla” (suppl. 3.50 )

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Tutusaus Gran Reserva
D.O. Penedès, Catalonia
(Winery Can Tutusaus)
A bright yet complex cava, with 36 months of gaining wisdom inside the bottle.

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choose:

Peña el Gato
Rioja, Spain
(Winery Juan Carlos Sancha)
Old vine Garnacha grape from Rioja, using wild yeasts. A full wine long in mouth.
(or)

El Vitxo Orange wine
Alt Penedès, Catalonia
(Winery Finca Parrera )
Chardonnay & Xarel·lo grape varieties
6 months skin contact

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choose:

Pansal de Calàs 1998 (sweet)
(sweet fortified wine from Garnacha)
(or) Rar Sol i Serena (semi)
(medium dry, long and intriguing wine aged with slow oxidation in glass jars)
(or) Sereno “ranci” (dry)