Squid, star dish in 7 restaurants in Salou

Salou. Costa Dorada. 19 November 2024. A total of seven restaurants in Salou are taking part in a new edition of the Calamari Gastronomic Days. Most of these restaurants have created a menu with calamari as their star product, but they also offer a tasting menu. The events will be held until December 1, 2024.

The participating restaurants are:

• Castillo de Javier (c/ de Barbastre s/n): tasting menu for 45 euros
• Cook and Travel (c/ Llevant, 5): tasting menu for 60 euros
• Córcega Restaurant (carrer Major, 31): a starter, main course and desserts for 30 euros
• La Taberna del Áncora (Autovia de Reus a Salou, 3): starter, main course and dessert for 28.90 euros
• Malapecora (Via Augusta, 14): starter, main course and dessert for 39 euros
• Restaurant el Morro (Via Roma, 3): starter, main course and dessert for 24.95 euros
• El Racó de Nico (Via Augusta, 19): 3-course starter to share, main course and dessert for 30 euros

All proposals include in the price a pairing proposal with White and/or black wine from one of the designations of origin of the area such as DO Montsant, DO Terra Alta, DO Catalunya or DO Costers del Segre.

You can consult the specific offer of the participating restaurants in the document that you will find at the end of this information.

The Councillor for Economic Promotion of the Salou City Council, Hèctor Maiquez, explained that "this gastronomic event highlights the seafood cuisine of Salou, with this tasty mollusc" and has highlighted the link between the days and the celebration of the Squid Fishing Competition, "a very genuine competition that recalls the work of the sea that the fishermen here did."

Pep Moreno, Michelin Star and president of the Associació d’Empresaris d’Hostaleria de Salou (AEH), has thanked the involvement of all the catering establishments that participate, highlighting the creativity of the professionals, "who make this mollusc of extraordinary taste, texture, smell and colour become a star ingredient in dishes."

For his part, the mayor of Salou, Pere Granados, has highlighted the involvement of the catering sector, which "is carrying out very good work, which combines efforts, together with our objective of de-seasonalising the tourist season with gastronomic days that attract tourists and visitors, outside the summer months"

Salou has become a gastronomic reference on the Costa Dorada, and even more so taking into account that visitors place gastronomy as one of the preferred motivations for visiting this tourist destination where many and varied styles of cuisine are represented for all tastes and for all budgets.

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