{"id":1205,"date":"2014-06-27T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2014-08-24T06:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:24:15","slug":"akelare-the-akelare-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Akelare: The Akelare Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now for the last menu! The Akelare Classics. <\/p>\n

\"Lobster<\/a>
\nLobster salad with cider vinegar. A well done lobster salad. Nothing groundbreaking. <\/p>\n

\"Pasta<\/a>
\nPasta carpaccio, piquillo and iberic, with parmesan shrooms. The ham looking bits are actually pasta! And the pasta tastes like meat even though it’s made from veggies. The texture is, not surprisingly, like pasta once you start chewing.<\/p>\n

\"Peas\"<\/a>
\nAn add on course of grilled peas and asparagus (the charcoal looking bits). Dad was hoping to relive Asador Exteberri’s marvelous peas, but these came nowhere close. Good, but not quite as life changing. <\/p>\n

\"Rice<\/a>
\nRice with snails and periwinkles in tomato and basil film. Snails, rice. About what you’d expect.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
\nRed Mullet with Sauce “Fusili”. The curly bits are sauce in magic. The fish was also very well done. <\/p>\n

\"Carved<\/a>
\nCarved beef, tail cake with potatoes and peppers. Lumps of beef. With a shredded tail cake. And potato (and pepper, I guess?) chips.<\/p>\n

\"Gin<\/a>
\nGin and tonic on a plate. I hate cocktails, but I really liked this dessert. Jelly, juniper sauce and an icecream.<\/p>\n

\"Apple<\/a>
\nApple tart with no fresh apples. But I wouldn’t have known if no one told me. :)<\/p>\n

Final thoughts about Akelare:
\n24 dishes tried over three and a half hours. Wow.
\nIf I were a local, I’d come back — but I’d pick my courses:
\nPrawns in fireplace and foie gras w\/ “salt and pepper” from Bekarki
\nPasta Carpaccio, maybe the mullet and the gin & tonic from the Classics
\nand Xaxu & Coconut Mousse from Aranori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now for the last menu! The Akelare Classics. Lobster salad with cider vinegar. A well done lobster salad. Nothing groundbreaking. Pasta carpaccio, piquillo and iberic, with parmesan shrooms. The ham looking bits are actually pasta! And the pasta tastes like meat even though it’s made from veggies. The texture is, not surprisingly, like pasta once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[80,78,72,73],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-places","tag-3-stars","tag-akelare","tag-san-sebastian","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}