I just discovered that one of my blog posts on how to use Pinterest has been featured by the SITS Girls site! Explains why my blog traffic has been exploding lately. Thank you so much to the SITS girls for featuring my little article! And now, instead of a recipe this week {since right now I still don’t have much of a kitchen!}, I’m going to talk restaurants! A very special restaurant in particular!
Ikibana Borne. We walked past it several times coming back and forth from the K+K Hotel Picasso and thought it would be a great place to sit, enjoy a glass of wine or a beer, grab some tapas, and people-watch. It looked modern but not overly trendy, busy enough to be good but not so busy that we couldn’t have a conversation, and smelled delicious.
We found a favorite restaurant to add to our world-wide list!
Ikibana serves Japanese-Brazilian fusion food. For someone who’s been to both places a number of times and enjoys both styles of cuisine, it was a match that could either be too strange to work – or really, really good. It was the latter and beyond. It was excellent.
We tried both lunch and dinner offerings at Ikibana. I can’t rave enough about their lunch special. For about €16, you get a four course meal including your selection of appetizer, a soup or salad, a main entree, and dessert. Drinks included. Drinks included?? Can you say caipirinhas, anyone? Delicious. Scott and I sampled this, and then brought Karen and Sabrina back with us another day for a go at the tasting menu.
Everything had the lightness and sweet crunchy tempura and soy taste of traditional Japanese cuisine, but there were plenty of hints of Brazilian barbecue in there, hearty slices of meat, the bold introduction of cheeses and salsas here and there, and natural fruits, and everything was blended together brilliantly. I absolutely love the idea, and can’t wait until I have my full kitchen together to try making some of these dishes!
Here’s hoping all of you have a wonderful day – and if you’re ever in Barcelona, definitely seek out Ikibana!
