To me, this looks like an English pub - but it's a Basque icon. It's a dark hang-out with a cheese platter that I've heard people brag about - I've yet to try it. And then this place is famous for its Beef Tongue Saturday - which I will never try. Not even if you double-dog dare me.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Bar Gernika in the Basque District
To me, this looks like an English pub - but it's a Basque icon. It's a dark hang-out with a cheese platter that I've heard people brag about - I've yet to try it. And then this place is famous for its Beef Tongue Saturday - which I will never try. Not even if you double-dog dare me.
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I'll give the cheese a try, but no way for the other, ick. I like the corner spot.
ReplyDeleteYou chicken! Lengua is absolutely yummy and soft. I'll take that AND the cheese platter. :D
ReplyDeleteMe either!!! No desire to eat tongue.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the Beef Tongue! Blech! But, oh, that cheese platter sounds heavenly!
ReplyDeleteOh Hilda, we are such wimps. I have a hard time watching Andrew Zimmer eat some disguisting things (Bizzare Foods/Travel Channel). I'm with you BD. The cheese plate sounds good.
ReplyDeleteHee hee. The Philippines was a Spanish colony for 300 years. I think that's when we learned to eat lengua. But I really hope you'd gather enough courage to try it one of these days. I wasn't kidding about it being really good. They don't serve them whole anyway — they just look like slices of pork. If they have 'pastel de lengua' that's your safest bet. It's a casserole with cubed lengua and vegetables covered with a pastry crust.
ReplyDeleteHi Hilda - well, my refusal to try a new food is often lessend with a small glass of wine. No one has ever offered a beef tongue dish to me, yet!
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