To start the New Year with the best we had dinner at YO tonight. We did a hybrid menu between the two tasting menus, as the last time we found the longer menu just too much food. However, we couldn't pass up a couple of our favorites from the longer menu, so we added them to the shorter. I know, "special case". While all the food was fabulous, the welcome from Stefano and Eva (Chef and FOH respectively) made the entire experience even more wonderful. The fourteen seat cozy dining room could simply not be more gracious.
beef tartare (above) under the shiso leaf with a smoked egg yolk and a fruit sauce to add to the delight when you wrap it up by picking it up and then top it before eating it like a taco - beef tarte shown revealed (below)
We did the pairings but this was the WOE a magnificent version of a wine I don't really like. Light and not sweet (just a touch) - a perfect balance
Cod on a very buttery butter sauce with just a hint of lemon. (above) and Pork rib slow cooked with creamed corn and cherry (below)
Goat milk ice cream with pineapple anise geleé followed by the last dessert. Red fruit puree with a white chocolate and ginger and a side of lemon curd with a pastry twig in the center
Tried a new place for lunch Friday. One of the folks who runs Sushi Kanasawa opened up a noodle shop nearby. So we stopped in to say hello last night and to tell her we'd come back the next day for lunch. I would say this is more of a hot pot shop versus straight noodles.
The translation of the name is "10 Second Yunnan Rice Noodles" and Professor Google helped us find that it is a Chinese franchise.
We ordered two soups and a crispy pork starter. MORE than enough food. I found my spicy soup just right once I dug in past the pepper that was floating on the top of the lemongrass and chicken broth. Everything was super hot in temperature and stayed nicely hot throughout the meal. I would refine my ordering a bit the next time and try some new options but this particular broth would be perfect for that day you find a cold coming on.
Phil chose the basic chicken broth and seemed to like his very much (no photo except on the menu.) The staff were all very helpful as hot pot is new here (we now have two in the old city) and people are unfamiliar with the process - hence the "how to eat" instructions that are on both the menu and the window on the outside of the restaurant.
The street outside - the shop is on Canalejas a few doors down from our coffee place and around the corner from the fancy "big white hotel" LOL
We made all three nights of New Year's weekend as reservations for five when Lee, Nick and Aarav were going to be here but we kept them all for just the two of us - no point in our suffering because our friends couldn't be here.
Meal for Friday evening at Augurio (every table was full and several turned over a second time, which is unusual here). The packed house is likely due to the holiday weekend. Here in Sevilla it is still Christmas. It doesn't end until Epiphany and on Three Kings Day (the day before Epiphany) there is a huge parade with floats and treats thrown to the children who line the streets awaiting the "Magic Kings". So things are still in full holiday season mode until at least mid next week.
We had our usual favorites of the steak tartare bombitas and the pez mantequilla tacos and the foie gras along with the tuna triptico (tuna three ways) and Phil had his pan cristal sandwich of pork in whisky sauce. We headed to MITO for gelato as - believe it or not it has been at least four days since we had a MITO fix
Turns out we are doing pretty much Asian for the bulk of the holiday weekend- with "10 second fideo" and our choices at Augurio, then sushi at Hiyoki and now we have added MING with Helena for Sunday night.
Saturday night at our current favorite sushi place HIYOKI. Lots of sashimi and a few new to us rolls. We are still trying various things from the menu. Then we stopped on the way home at the new MITO to say hello to Gabby.
And so ends our first week of 2026...
