Taste of Spain

Wednesday night Otto, Vivian, Maggie, Derek, and I went to this place called Taste of Spain. This is on the corner of Yonge and Elmwood, very close to the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, and steps from the North York Center subway station. If you go there, know that they have 5 or 6 customer parking spots behind the store, the enterance being on Elmwood. Otherwise, there are parking meters all along Elmwood, so don't worry.

Apparently on Tuesdays, there are live music performances; but since this was Wednesday, we missed it.

We had ourselves a '97 vintage wine, (which we promptly forgot its name. doh) and that was quite good. We started with a goat cheese appetizer, which I thought was quite good. However, for $8 that sure was a small plate :) That's ok, especially since only Vivian and I really enjoyed it, we get lots of pieces of it.

Then came the main dishes. We decided to each get a main course and then split a seafood Paella between all of us. I had the seafood cassarol, which actually tasted very good. Vivian and Derek had Rabbit confit. For some reason though, Vivian got all the dark meat (which was yummy) and Derek got all the white meat (he says it tasted like chicken breast and was quite dry.) I guess he didn't like it much, because much of it was left. Maggie had the duck confit, and that must have been yummier, cus Derek dug into it like he was Hungry Man himself. Poor Otto. He had the salmon puff -- when it came we all kinda thought it was small.. and Otto claimed that he didn't taste fish at all.

Then the paella came.. and boy it was a large dish. Clams, mussles, and prawns are delightfully arranged on the pan on top of the rice. Man this is not paella for two! I kinda like it -- it's comfort food in some ways, but the others didn't like it. Vivian says she had better at the same restaurant, but she comes on weekends usually so perhaps the restaurant had an off-day. In all, I think it was fine, but for the price we had to pay, not the best I've had.