Pintxos Tour, San Sebastian

Spain Degustation Tour

Date	Restaurant	Location	Booking Status	Time	2021 World Ranking
15 Sept	Asador Etxebarri	Axpe	Booked	13:30	#3
12 Sept	Disfrutar	Barcelona	Booked	13:30	#5
16 Sept	Mugaritz	San Sebastian	Booked	20:00	#14
17 Sept	Elkano	Getaria	Booked	13:00	#16
10 Sept	DiverXO	Madrid	Booked	20:00	#20
14 Sept	Azurmendi	Larrabetzu	Booked	13:00	#49
13 Sept	Nerua	Bilbao	Booked	13:00	#53
16 Sept	Arzak	San Sebastian	Booked	13:30	#94

Travel Logistics

10 September, Saturday morning arrive in Madrid 

11 September, Sunday fly to Barcelona  

13 September, Tuesday early morning fly to Bilbao

13 September to 18 September rental car 

18 September, Sunday late afternoon fly to Madrid, then back to US 

 

Hawaii's (especially Wakiki's ) Amazing Food Scene

Vietnamese Phó

Spicy Chicken w/ a side a macaroni  and green salad.

Make your own Poke Bowl 

Spicy Tuna Poke Bowl 

Korean 

Fresh Fruit from AirBnB Farm

Hawaiian Fast Food

Medellin and Cartagena Food Scene

Petronios Pandebono: Corn starch with fermented cassava starch, cheese. 

 Stuffed with seafood casserole, with a touch avocado, silt and lots of Pacific flavor. 

(Alambique: Instagram @alambiquemedellin)

Perfect Avocados: Stuffed with Roquefort Cheese, Wrapped in Baked Meat and Bacon accompanied by Passion Fruit Aji Mix (Alambique: Instagram @alambiquemedellin)

Carimañola Cake: Base and cover of baked yucca (cassava), with Cartagenara beef, and Sinuano cheese; marinated in sweet pepper and coriander. Accompanied with aji of suero.

(Alambique: Instagram @alambiquemedellin)

Limonada de Coco

Tiradito con salsa de tamarindo y mayonesa de rocoto / 

Fish carpaccio with tamarind sauce and rocoto pepper mayonnaise

(Women's Prison: Restaurant Interno)

Arroz caldoso con frutos del mar / Rice soup with seafood 

(Women's Prison: Restaurant Interno)

Tostones (Patacón)

Ceviche with Banana Chip Side

Colombian Food, Medellín

Beans, Arepas, Ground Meat, Egg and Fried Pork Belly

Chicken Steak and Banana Crisps 

Arepas with Cheese

Avocado Salad 

Excellent Beef!!

Food Market, Plaza de Mercado de Paloquemao, Bogota

Making Arepas con Queso 

Arepas con Queso 

Fresh Vegetable Everywhere 

Guanabana is a fruit tree that is a member of the Custard Apple family.

Granadilla is a type of passion fruit. There is no exact translation in English and is known for it’s hard, round and orange casing.

Stuffed Pork with Rice

Lot of Fish!

Colombian Food, Bogotá

Queso Con Bocadillo

Street Food

Ajiaco: chicken stew w/ potatoes and corn, and toppings of capers, avocado and cream (top and bottom)

Roast Pork

A type of Colombian chicken stew. I ate everything except the feet. 

Breakfast with arepas (upper right) - made from chewy, white, savory type of corn called "choclo"

Eastern European Food

cabbage soup with "mulled" red wine

Potato Dumplings w/ Bacon Garnish

Birch "Juice" w/ Eclairs 

Coffee w/ sugar, cinnamon, meringue

vodka before dinner

dumplings for lunch 

vodka before breakfast 

breakfast donuts with sour cream and jelly

fresh mushrooms

pork dinner

steak w/ mushroom side

chocolate w/ pepper and lemon