Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Friday Festival

On Fridays, there is a town gathering by the Comedie, the town square. There a tons of food vendors,  vendors with purses, hats, etc. and other things to buy. The best part of the festival, however, is the wine tasting. For only 5 Euro, you can buy 3 tasting tickets that comes with a glass to keep, and each "taste" is around 4-5oz, so almost a regular glass of wine. There are so many choices to select from, as there were probably 75 different vineyards represented, each with at least 1 red, 1 rose, and 1 white. Sorting through the different options can be difficult, but through trial and error we found a few good ones. Below is a picture of the festival early in the evening(with Adrienne poking her head into the picture). By about 9, the whole street was packed with people. 


Here are the oysters from the seafood vendor. It was obvious that these were extremely fresh. They were taking them directly out of the refrigerated truck. I wouldn't be surprised if they came out of the sea that same day. These oysters were very salty and briny, and had a very clean taste. 



For dinner I chose to eat paella. Looking at the huge pan they made it in, it was hard not to order it.


After waiting for about 10 minutes for the rice to finish cooking, I was rewarded with a huge plate of paella, which came fromt he edge of the pan where all the mussels and shrimp were gathered. The paella had awesome depth of flavor and seasonings were perfectly balanced. This paella was as good as I've had, and the generous portion made it a steal for 8 Euro.

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