A Fishy Tale

 

Here's that fish taverna again.  The one across the waters, up the hill and round the corner, that became up-market, with coffee machines and a lounge bar.  Below was the  beach of very tightly packed bods.

View from our table.

  We could have sat further out and in the breeze, and shade, but those tables were only for 6.  We were 6 but we eat for eight and like to spread things around.  Usually the waiters will add or take-away tables to suit the client.  Not these.

At a fish taverna you eat fish.

Some of our party were frightened by the prices, and ate pork chops.

  

Lobster 95 euros a kilo

Local shrimps 70 euros a kilo.

No one is going to eat a kilo of these.  Not by themselves anyway. 

Fried squid 12 euros.  Frozen is half the price but they don't have frozen here.

Share the food , share the price .

A kilo of fresh cod was 45 euros.  Still pricey?  Half a kilo fed 2 men.  That's reasonable.  You look at the menu, you go inside and look at the fish and it's your choice.

Our nephew chose shrimp spaghetti.  

I think it worked out at 19 euros.   He had a delicious meal that he really enjoyed.  Worth every cent he said.

5 huge local red shrimp

This is all that was left

Those heads are the tastiest part of the shrimp.  They got passed down the table

We took the bones home for the cats who hissed their anger at such meagre tidbits.  

Shrimp in a tomatoey sauce over a huge plate of spaghetti.  The heads got special attention and the leftovers fed the pets.  Well worth the money.

The only thing you need to be careful about with this dish is not getting half of that sauce down your t-shirt.  He managed magnificently.

And he deserved it.  He's been sailing around the world, captaining a tanker  for the last 9 months.