So we are about to go to one of the restaurants that I have been dreaming about going to for a very long time
And you've probably seen it in a ton of magazines and that is the grotto part
This restaurant is located literally in one of the caverns off the adriatic sea and we are dining there tonight
Thank you
I think your outfit is stellar for tonight. I'm very excited
Well, not the minute I saw that dress I said that's it is it everything we've imagined
So excited wow
Beautiful
This is most certainly a restaurant that takes your breath away
Oh
Again we just got a table upgrade
Beautiful, this is great. Perfect
Grazia, oh wow. Thank you. Magnifico spectacular
How do you order off the
you can take a
Testing menu or magical or sharpening magic. It's only finished with efficiency
And you can take what you want from here yes, okay or starter or pasta or main
So one two or three courses is it just the portions are adjusted if you do one two, or three
It's a normal portion. Not too big. Not too small. Okay?
Okay, so is it basically?
So if you order a la carte
Is it still 180 euro, how does that work? Okay, and you can pick up to three
For the 180. Yes. Okay. So a starter a pasta and a maine or
A pasta a main and dessert got it
Okay, sorry long day um, let's okay, I think we need a couple minutes to look at the menu
Okay, so
Very easy when you get it explained to you here, it's actually quite nice and quite pricey. So basically
Um, you have the option to have a tasting menu
Uh, which is uh, either a fish tasting menu or a fish and meat tasting menu. Imagico is all fish
The charming is fish and meat or you can order dishes from a la carte starters
pastas mains or dessert
and basically for 180 euro, you can order one two or three of those so
starter main dessert or starter pasta maine
Which is probably how i'll go. We're saving the gelato for later
Uh or for 220 you can eat everything but dessert is best kept for the piazza. You look ravishing. Oh you sweet
From
And so what is the wine this is
Beautiful
Thank you for the recommendation
So anna what do we get tonight for the wine? Um, so we got a local wine, it's fully
it's um
It's a san marzano
this wine is absolutely perfect for the meal that we'll be having a
Really nice fruit on it. It's a dry white wine, but very fruity and just a tiniest note of petrol in it
which what's the petrol petrol like um
It sounds strange but gasoline
Take away from that room broom
It's actually a really lovely note in a wine natural everybody, can you smell it?
It smells very nice whatever it is
No, whatever is good
So at 180 euros per person I won't be bringing a souvenir back from colognano the souvenir will be in my ballet
All right, so
blue lobster steamed
watermelon torito almond and thyme sauce
amberjack marinated basil fennel raspberry
Raw red prawns scampi tuna caviar grapefruit and celery sounds like a compost
uh pork pluma celery pyramid
So this is the kind of menu that is quite intriguing
and it's also one that's extremely hard to judge by the ingredients because
um
Not that we don't know or I don't know what they are
but
Each one of these is really going to be a masterpiece. So when i'm in this type of a situation
one of the things that I like to do
is actually ask the server what their recommendation is they're going to be
Way more intimately familiar with the cuisine here than I am. So i'll ask them for recommendations for the starter
the pasta and the maine
Foreign
So we are ready, yes
So normally ladies first
Um, and why don't you order first?
Okay
I do think I actually know what I want. Um, I know we'd like to start with the raw. Yeah
Um and the spaghettoni sounds fantastic
And I crazy
And I was a little torn between the sea bass and the turban turbo for me through
Really? Okay. I was leaning a little towards the sea bus. What do you think is the
the best for me
What do you think is the best difference between here we have the onions
Okay, i'm gonna do the uh three courses
And um i'd like your recommendation yes for a starter
That is exactly what I wanted, okay, we're going to start with the pluma pork which has a celery yak
Puree and mergia, is that how you pronounce that?
black truffle
I love truffle
And then for the pasta
For me it's my best but
So for a different well, what should I get you can take the
drink
Okay, sounds fantastic so the riso beetroot provola cheese fondue and baby squids
And then for the main you can take
Well, I well i'll tell you what I was thinking about the cafe
What do you prefer the sea bass or the calf cheeks? I prefer the sea bus. We're gonna do the sea baths
We are on the adriatic
I cannot pass up fish. Perfect
Thank you, thank you and what is your name? Wow, beautiful
So tonight's dinner at garato palestine is going to be
spectacular three courses
carefully selected fish
And fantastic wine from julia so it looks like marie angela we have a amuse-bouche. Yes, we started
In the glass. We have a zucchini with cheese and tomato mayo beautiful. We have bread for you
Our starter tonight is a beautiful amuse bush, which is
Absolutely elegantly colored this beautiful creamy tomato puree with the burrata
And I believe the fresh zucchini on the bottom
with the beautiful flowers on top and then some fresh lemon zest how elegant
The first thing that hits me is the beautiful tomato puree
The creamy zucchini the creamy burrata. It's a perfect start to the meal
How do you know what all this stuff is because you nailed it?
Thank you, oh it's just like you with mine
So which I cannot wait to drive
And this would have been great
As a dipper
Would you like to try to raleigh homemade italian charlie, I would
And this looks good. I mean I gotta do it
Hmm
Everything here so far at grotto palette see i'm going to ask them how to say that name
Because my italian is horrible, how do you pronounce the restaurant?
Is
Oh
And that's about as good as it's going to get with my poor italian child my ancestors are rolling in the grave
But the restaurant is fabulous the amus bush out of this world the bread
terrific from the homemade to raleigh
To this beautiful flatbread
Excellent start to the meal
The pork pluma
puma
Wow love me some
Demi-glass and potato chip. Wow, this is spectacular. Thank you
What is this a red brown scampi tuna and caviar with celery and grapefruit wow
Wow
there are so many beautiful flavors in this dish the beautiful celery puree gives it a really
Light but still a very distinct taste
the truffle
Fabulous that earthy garlic flavor and the pork absolutely melts in my mouth
What?
a starter
I have to tell you
this pork
Is so good
This entire experience here
at grata pallade see
Is that good enough?
This entire experience at grata palette
Has been incredible the flavor of this dish is to die for i'm really happy I came here tonight
And
If you are on a honeymoon
This is your place to go. I have the raw dish and it has a red shrimp
tuna
White shrimp caviar
Celery and grapefruit and it is unbelievable. The texture of the red shrimp in particular is
buttery silky
Soft supple just absolutely sensual. What are we talking about here gorgeous food
It's you know, if it's your honeymoon this is probably what you want before the evening gets started
Isn't she beautiful
Hmm
Beautiful
spaghetto pasta with retro crown from gallipoli sea or china and truffle
Gorgeous enjoy. Thank you
This beetroot risotto is gorgeous with the baby squids
this is absolutely
One of the freshest risotto I have ever had
And I haven't even had it yet, but I can tell you it's absolutely beautiful
Beautiful char on the squid
Well, it's two for two it's not often that I am blown away by a meal
And this is quite a meal
This risotto is fabulous perfectly cooked al dente, but the star of this dish as you can imagine
Is the squid?
and it absolutely
melts in your mouth I have never
had
Squid so tender and that is not easy to do because squid is so easily overcooked. It's
Absolutely
incredible
To the show
Take a piece of spread do what you want
I'll take half a squid so I don't eat all your spit
Hey that's valuable the calamari queen has zoomed in on my dish
That is
Beautiful
So tender so delicious
This risotto is so good. It is a very unusual dish the risotto
is actually
Cooked in beet juice so you have this beautiful beach red color
The squid is beyond
tender
And actually something that really enhances the overall flavor complexity of this dish
Is the provolone fondue absolutely?
Outstanding so what do we have here tonight now for the main course
With leeks puree blueberry and onion it looks beautiful. The aromas are
Really fantastic really beautiful and we have
Wow
dinner
is
literally
a work of art
And it's time to satisfy my palette
we have
the sea bass
Beautifully prepared and i've never seen it done like this in these individual filet sections with the beautiful puree
I don't even know what's in here. We just heard mary. Angela. Tell us
It's gorgeous. I want to taste these flavors
This dinner. Let's see if we can do three for three
The key when you're eating a dish like this that is composed with so many beautiful and unique complex ingredients
Is to mix it all together. That's how the dish is intended to be enjoyed
Bon apetito
You get the butteriness of the sea bass the crunch of the panko and the toastiness of the pistachio
with the beautiful aioli
This dish is a hit and yes, it is three for three egrata palette
So this is looks like it looks beautiful
A leaf puree with onion balsamic I know right?
Tangerine
Or apricot
Or mango, it's tart yeah
The fish is really really delicate
It's supple the leek puree is creamy, it's soft everything here is kind of um
like a bouquet of flowers
Really so you can there are so many different flavors and aromas that play together really well it's like
Hard to put your finger on what's what?
Textures and flavors just it's a perfect combo, isn't it? It's beautiful. You want to try my sea bass i'd love to
What are these guys it looks like a mini zucchini
You have a little like pineapple
Oh, this is
Outstanding, yeah, isn't that beautiful. Wow. It's like a bouquet of things. Okay
Would you like to trip it better
I love my dish but your fish is fabulous. It really is you wanna split. Nope. You're good. Enjoy
Um
Okay, so this just happened as it always does we're having this incredible dinner
we're winding things down and I met the
Two loveliest people here at our next table who?
coincidentally
Have a wine and cheese shop
in the uk
And the uk is on my list for places to visit
So, you know what? That means we're gonna go
So
This is i'm claire
And i'm counting and the name of your shop is the cheese and wine shop in darlington
And tell me all about it
So it's a beautiful little store and it's a gorgeous deli and it sells wine and cheese and we're here doing a bit of research
on the wine from the puglia region
So we're trying the minute grape which is um, the local white wine. Um, it's made here in barry
Really? Yeah down the road. It's really really close to here and it's a really green apple
So it tastes like a granny smith. It is delicious
And just really crispy and it went so well with our food tonight so yeah, you've got to come and visit she had the whitefish
Um, and I had parks or white meat. It was really really good. Great
So how cool is that? You know, this is a great shop
When the owners actually travel to sample the wine in the region that the wine comes from
That I think is pretty remarkable
Exactly we do and we try to only sell wines from places. We've been and travel to so we think about christmas
Great have a little story behind them too would mean something to us
Something we could take home and relive these nights at home. We'll get a bottle of this farm. We'll have a little bit of
Cheese. Yeah, a little bit italian cheese and some italian meats and a little crustini with the almonds in them. Yeah delicious
Yeah, so it will be nice and then we'll sell this type of stuff in our store and we can give our customers great recommendations
Wow
And it's great to meet you guys. Yes, it is. Now. What is your um,
What is your hashtag or what is your instagram handle?
Instagram is at cheese and wine cheese wine shop. So at cheese wine shop. Yes
Um, yeah, we'll zoom in on your phone. You don't need to check
All right guys so when you were in the uk, and you were in darlington, right
Darlingtown
You've got to check it out
So how special that we are on our way to meet chef nicolai grant
Because dinner was that good
Watch watch your head
Well, this is so special, thank you dinner
Wow, that's the kitchen
Outstanding, really, thank you so much. So tell me. Um, this is anna ciao
So tell me about
your vision for the culinary, dude
Yes
My mission is to meditate mediterranean
And uh, I think this is the perfect place for discussing fish on uh
Yes
I think this is uh the best quality of
In in polynomial we have the turbo tonight
fabulous
and the sea bass
Excellent the entire dinner. Thank you very much
Impeccable how many people do you have working on? Uh
Tonight we have six people. Wow, but normally we have 12 30
Wow, this is just incredible
Now I will let you go because I know you're probably very busy, right?
Can I take a few shots?
Yes, okay. Yes. Thank you
That's also
Okay
Foreign
Yeah
On
Oh my god, this is beautiful, what dish is this?
it's
italian with
mushrooms on the steamer stream
Unbelievable. Are you from germany where you're from?
i'm from
But I live
Five years in germany
dinner at grata
Has been an unbelievable experience and chef nicola runs a very tight kitchen and you can see why
The food is carefully selected. It's fresh. It's fantastic. The composition of the plates are out of this world
From the sea to the table. This is a restaurant you cannot miss so when you are in polignano amare
come to
palete experience
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