Zucca Restaurant

I was about to lose my hope to find a nice modern Italian restaurant in London, well don't get me wrong, you can have a wonderful Italian meal but it will cost you!
Zucca restaurant in Bermondsey Street is a modest and unpretentious with simple white furniture and a open  kitchen.
The service is very attentive on the edge of being o.t.t., pouring water and wine for us, every 2 minutes, we couldn't relax much.
The food compensates for everything: fresh, flavoursome but delicate at the same time. Foccacia and Ciabatta was served without any charge!
My main dish was a slow cooked Octopus with Jersey Royals, it was tender and gentle on the palate.
My companion's dish was Monk fish with lentils and sautéed sea kale,the fish- firm texture and lovely grilled flavour ,wonderful!
You know that feeling, when you are not that full with a little space for dessert-but-don't-want- a whole-one?
I ordered a moist hazelnut and coffee cake, it was the"icing on the cake" with a double espresso.


184 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ
Telephone

020 7378 6809

Dalva e Dito - Alex Atala

I went to Chef Alex Atala's Dalva e Dito ( Dalva comes from Dalva Star and Dito comes from Sao Benedito)  restaurant . The idea is to bring back Colonial food , all dishes are made with typical regional Brazilian ingredients such as Jambu ( plant family of oval leaves, jagged and thick, pale yellow flowers. Is used in cooking in dishes typical of Northern Brazil, as the "tacacá" and "duck in tucupi" . When chewed, the tongue slightly anesthesia.)

I had Moqueca Capixaba (Espirito Santo  regional food) , white rice and Pirao, my fiend had Porco na Lata com Pure de Batata e Pequi (Pequi is a fruit, its pulp is a very popular food in Goiás and Minas Gerais, eaten by itself raw or prepared or used as an ingredient in cooking ) see picture below.

Only few steps from his flagship restaurant D.O.M. ( 18th  best restaurant in the world)
The signature dish is the roast chicken, roasted to perfection in what Atala calls "the Ferrari of roasters", a Rotissol rôtissoir flewn in from France.
If you visit Sao Paulo and would like to taste a real brazilian flavoursome dish;I recomend to make a reservation.
Rua Padre João Manoel 1115, São Paulo, 01426-000LocationJardim PaulistaPhone011/3064-6183

Last Breakfast in Sao Paulo

Before my trip back to London, my friends Luciano and Ricardo took me to a famous "padaria" to have my last breakfast in style in Sao Paulo- Brazil, I will show some of the delicacies I had there.
Starting with breads                                                                                           and cakes

I had to try the delicious Tapioca made with cassava root flour and condensed milk freshly prepared for you, I will miss Sao Paulo....