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Restaurant Syrah presented at www.caviarbcn.com

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We are from today present at www.caviarbcn.com a very interesting website on the restaurants in Barcelona.

You can read in spanish its words on the Syrah:

http://www.caviarbcn.com/restaurante.asp?restaurante=syrah&id=155

Demonstration at the Gremio de pasteler�a de Barcelona

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Last month our Syrah restaurant was invited to the Barcelona Pastry and Dessert Association with the object of carrying out a demonstration of our cuisine. The demonstration focused on the introduction to the new savoury trends and their applications to world desserts. One can recognise that desserts in today's society can easily fall into the area of highest growth and evolution, especially as the border between savoury and sweet flavours is slowly disappearing, providing room for new tastes and sensations. All assistants were extremely professional adding savoury concepts to their desserts, making the demonstration an all round success and the tasters extremely satisfied.

Wine Harvest Festivals

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Although the summer is a time when the multitude of celebrations is widespread in many towns, we´ve started leaving it behind. It's not unbelievable that currently the dates still clash with many towns that are swarming with people because of the celebrations. One of the most important reasons this occurs has to do with the wine harvest, which has taken place since the Middle Ages and is justification to hundreds of places all around the world where townspeople celebrate, dance, drink and laugh to commemorate the culmination of the harvest of the wine grapes. For this, today, from Desgústalo, we offer you a small account of the most important celebrations with regard to the wine harvest that take place in different areas of the world during the upcoming weeks. Have a great time!

Tasting Australia (Adelaida, Australia): During the first week of October, this festival that is celebrated biannually offers an interesting view of the new wine harvests of Australia.

Festival del Vino-Douja d'or (Asti, Piamonte, Italia): Celebrated the whole month of September.

Les Trois Glorieuses (Beaune, Borgoña, Francia): Probably the most famous and recognised wine festival in the world. Toward the middle of November it is celebrated in three days designed to promote this beverage, which also culminates with the sale of wines in the Hospicios de Beaune.

Fiesta de la Vendimia (Binissalem, Mallorca, España): Festival that is celebrated on the last Sunday of September, during which the first grape juice is offered to the Virgen of Robines.
Fiesta de la Vendimia (Cariñena, Zaragoza, España): Celebrated the 15th of September, coinciding with the festivals of the Exaltation of Santa Cruz

Fiesta de la Vendimia (Covarrubias, Burgos, España): Celebrated the 28th of September when offerings are made to Saint Cosme and Saint Damian: Patron Saints of the town.

Fiestas del Moscatel (Chipiona, Cádiz, España): During the second week of September, The turning lose of bulls throughout the streets of the town stands out as the main event of this festival.

Fiestas de Fuencaliente (La Palma, España): Celebrated last 8th of September, the grape juices are blessed and sampled.

Fiesta de la Vendimia (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, España): During the second week of September, different acts and competitions are developed in which the traditional labours of the wine harvest of the wine are the central theme. This way, for example, the symbolic grape stomping in front of the cathedral and offering of the first grape juice to Saint Ginès of the Rockrose, the Patron Saint of the Vineyard of Jerez.

Fiesta de la Vendimia (Logroño, España): The 19th of September, in the middle of the celebrations of Saint Mateo, with carriage parades of wine harvest theme, stomping of the grapes and grape juice offerings to the Virgen of the Valvanera.

Exposición de vinos típicos lucchesi (Montespertoli, Toscana, Italia): During the first fifteen days of September.

Fiesta del Vino DOC (Montescudaio, Pisa, Toscana, Italia): Celebrated on the first Sunday of October.

Fiesta de la Vendimia (Montilla, Córdoba, España): Declared a touristic point of interest, it is celebrated during the first days of September.

Napa Music & Wine Festival (Morgan Hill, Napa Valley, EE.UU.): In September where young singers participate in search of success.

Niagara Grape & Wine Festival (Canada): The last week of September in Niagra on the Lake, with activities such as wine casting, concerts and samplings of cheeses.

Feria de Vinos Toscanos (Olmo, Arezzo, Toscana, Italia): Toward the end of September and beginning of October.

Festa do Magosto (Orense, España): On All Saints´ Day, with offering of wine, chestnuts and enxebre queimada (burnt gin) all around bonfires.

Exposición de Vinos del Año de Beaujolais y del Mâconnais (Romanèche-Thorins, Borgoña, Francia): In Octubre.

Fiesta del "Muscadet Nouveau" (Saint-Fiacre): The second Sunday of October. The celebration of the Local Truffle and Exposition of Tipical Wines of the Sanminiatesi Hills (San Miniato, Pisa, Toscana, Italia): During the whole month of October.

Nit Jove del Cava (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Barcelona, España): With a queen of the celebration included, it is celebrated on the tenth of October.

Festa de la Verema (Sitges, Barcelona, España): From the 18 to 20 of September. Competition of grape stomping. Election of the pubilla (madonna) to whom a gift is given with the equivilance of her weight in bottles of wine! Installation of the wine fountain. It is celebrated with solemn chapter of the Confreria of Sant Miquel of the Vineyard. Each year, the celebration is dedicated to one country.

Sagra del Pizzutello (Tivoli, Roma, Italia): The last Sunday of September. Expositions of the best grapes of the area especially the pizzutello, characterised as an elongated grape.

Fiesta del Vino (Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, España): During the first weeks of Septemeber, with performances of all kinds.

Fiesta de la Vendimia (Villafranca del Penedés, Barcelona, España): The first Sunday of October, with concerts, expositions, cultural activities and celebrations dealing with wine

Visan (Côtes-du-Rhône, Francia): Procession, the 8 of September, to the chapel of Notre Dame de Vignes, of the thirteenth century.

www.degustalo.com/archivos/festividades-vinicolas.

Discover the Markets

Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In the Mediterranean, for many centuries the markets lived like the people, in the open air and the cloth awnings were placed on the stalls more to protect them from too much sun than from rain, which was quite a rarity. Possibly the main reason for covering the markets was complaints from neighbours sick of the not-always-delicate smells, the rubbish, the regular rows between stallholders, the shouting and, ultimately, the racket, which must have been such that, in this country, the phrase "It sounds like Calaf market" refers to a genuine Catalan-style Tower of Babel. In markets people shout, but they also whisper, and, before there were newspapers, radio and television, they were the best place to find out everything going on in the town and the world. There were jobs there, as well as idling, and all this gradually made up a full fabric of everyday life reflecting liveliest facets of the citizens. Because, in the Mediterranean, markets are as old as the peoples who arrived there and, in Barcelona - a crossroads and meeting point of sea and land routes - they gathered great momentum. We cannot help mention the pleasure for the senses of a walk through a market. And Barcelona, as it does in so many things, excels in markets. Here we present an interesting summary on the Barcelona City Council website. Don't miss it.

http://www.bcn.es/mercatsmunicipals/

Restaurant Syrah and "Descubrir Cuina"

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

During the months of July, August and September the restaurant Syrah has the pleasure of collaborating with the prestigious magazine "Descubrir Cuina" (Discover Cuisine) to present the new recipes of its seasonal menu.

Throughout each month, the restaurant's Chef Xavier Gruber will exp lain to us the step by step processes to create these exquisite recipes.