Marking your culinary card: Laxeiro

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On Sunday’s, bringing Belindabelle to protect me and act as camouflage, because she’s one of the baddies, I regularly go right behind middle-class-leftie enemy-lines, and spend a few hours in East London.

The flower market in Columbia Road is one of my favourite haunts. The street is lined with people a bit like Jerry ‘Warfumstaw’ Croxford, who shout ‘fiver’ all day, seeing as everything there costs a fiver or is three for a fiver. So that’s what I spend on a plant, to bring home and put in the kitchen. I, obviously, also manage to involve some eating during proceedings.

This week, in a hollow attempt to look chivalrous, I recommended we ate at Laxeiro; a Spanish restaurant right at the ‘other’ end of Columbia Road. It always looks popular, and for Belinda, being Spanish, relieved a bit of homesickness.

Let me tell you, I am qualified to speak on very few topics, however, Spanish food is probably one of those few. You know how Spanish and South American people often have a nickname? Well, my nickname is ‘El Gordo’. It means ‘The Fat One’.

It is due to my low metabolism and yeast intolerance.

Sorry, I just had to write that bit if bullshit. Its the latest excuse fatties use.

Anyway, the food at Laxeiro is TOP NOTCH. Lots of people that haven’t been to Spain and explored the food, really don’t know what they’re missing. There are some very poor ‘microwave’ Spanish restaurants in England, but this place certainly isn’t one of them. The meal we had, was from start to finish; superb.

They had a full menu of traditional Spanish fayre and we were simply spoilt for choice. We plumped for a Spanish salad, pulpo (octopus), mussels, and the star of the show; the sea-bass. All were excellent and there was a lot more on the menu that El Gordo would have liked to have had a go at too.

If you go, be sure to also try some ‘churros’. They are so popular in Spain that there are little restaurants that serve only them. A sort of doughnut, they are long and thin, and you dip them in a chocolate sauce. They are also calorie free if you have had fish as a main course and said ‘no’ to bread earlier.

Have fun, eat well, and remember who told you about the place!

Visit the Laxeiro web site

B x