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Scris la 08 Feb 2006 23:34:28
A bit late in coming but here's the first restaurant review for bucuresto... Restaurant Sangria Feb 4, 2006 by martin place Restaurant Sangria *** If you want to impress, an excellent choice - interiors and desserts are superb - from my perspective, better suited for business entertainment than a romantic dinner for two. Location/Ambiance On Caderea Bastiliei, which is a cobbled street running from Piata Romana to Sos. Stefan Cel Mare are two restaurants pretty much next door to each other: Bastille (French) and Sangria (Spanish). It's been a long while since we had been to either, so last Friday evening, we reacquainted ourselves with Sangria. When you enter Sangria you are welcomed into a small lobby in what feels like an old villa tastefully refurbished and you wonder where all the tables are, until the hostess leads you the stairs and you 'wowed' by the restaurant 'proper'... ...a long whitewashed collonaded room, a 5 metre ceiling topped by a glass (plexal) roof - which can be opened in the summer, apparently - palm trees (yes, palm trees) - definitely not what one expects to find in that location and the 'wow'' feeling lingers for some time (although by the end of the evening I was thinking it was closer to hotel-chain kitsch rather than the authentic castillian terrace it aspires to be). The meal Sangria claims a Spanish theme and has a selection of fresh seafood - the "Catch of the Day', introduced to us by the waiter after we had settled in, included grilled Dorada, a sole-like flatfish and a large shrimp/small lobster-like thing, the name of which I forget for the moment (you can tell how rarely I risk seafood in Bucharest). For starters, my guests had seafood salad (on what appeared to be a plain iceberg lettuce) and cheese-grilled mushrooms followed by Black Tiger shrimp and the grilled Dorada respectively. I had a duck pate followed by a paella - it being a Spanish themed restaurant and all...adequate - if I had to point out shortcomings, the cold dishes were a little too cold and so lost what flavour they had. My paella was more akin to plain white rice with pieces of seafood and chicken rather than the moist colourful saffron-flavoured dish i am used to from Catalonia - but, we live and learn.... Deserts Splendid desserts! Scrumptious, word fail me...totally delicious - my guests ordered assorted icecream with chocolate sauce and tiramisu with 'fructe de padure' and I, a long spoon...luckily for them, the desserts are generous - the sweets in fact changed my opinion of Sangria from a moderate OK to a recommendation. Service High ratio of waiters to clients, very attentive (too much so?), the dorada was expertly filleted at the table - only one gripe which is more a policy thing - I like to keep the bottle of wine which is in progress on the table - it is not a question of not trusting the service staff to do their job but in my view, one of the roles of the host is to be attentive, top up one's guests' glasses etc. Price Sangria is not cheap as Bucharest restaurants go - starters range from RON20-40 (EURO6-10) and main courses go from RON50 (around EUR15) to a lobster for 2 at around (…you can guess...) Summary Great interior, no complaints, had a very pleasant evening – professionally run, not really my ideal place for a romantic or a family dinner, but for a business dinner I think it could (and should?) be on your shortlist Contact Sangria Address : Str. Caderea Bastiliei 78 Tel : 211 22 76 Fax: 211 22 76 Email :sangria@b.astral.ro Tags: bucharest hreview bucuresto sangria restaurant
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Scris la 03 Feb 2006 12:32:21
bucuresto Every year, around the beginning of February, Radu calls me to ask for a restaurant recommendation for where he should take his beloved for Valentine's Day...I do not know why...I never really have anywhere cool or 'delicious' to suggest - but this year will be different! I will invite my better half out twice in the next week (lucky girl!) and write a short review of the places we go by 10 February - when I post it to notez it can act as an inspiration (or warning) for those you are inclined to eat out on 14 February. Now, if only...I could get other like-minded people to do the same and a way to make the reviews findable... So I propose: ~ If you feel like doing the same - please do... ~ The audience is Romanian so post in Romanian if possible (mine will be in English - sorry) ~ If you have been thinking for an excuse to blog - now's a time to start ~ There are no prizes or other incentives (so far...) ~ Disclosure: I do not own shares in any restaurants in Bucharest ~ If you want to do a review but don't have a blog try to get hold of me and I will arrange to have it put on the web ~ hreview format is not compulsory - if you have no idea what I am talking about just ignore this line completely THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT: ~ How to make the posts findable - just add the following code somewhere in your review: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bucuresto" rel="tag">bucuresto</a> and through the magic of technorati the posts will be shown at... bucuresto (http://technorati.com/tag/bucuresto) Tags: bucharest dinner bucuresto valentines reviews
Sursa: http://www.notez.ro/blog/martin Etichete: bucharest dinner bucuresto valentines reviews romania
Scris la 14 Aug 2006 23:46:35
KML file from RSS feed in Google Earth I spent much of yesterday converting an RSS feed to KML with a spreadsheet (yes I know this sounds strange) - now I find there are easier ways...if you have an RSS feed with geotags then there are a couple of tools to convert direct to KML: Geonames.org RSS to KML near the bottom of the page - type in the URL of an RSS feed and it will output to KML for you to paste into Google maps or open in Google Earth. Here's a KML file of images from the notez RSS feed (...hmmm, must get image links in my rss feeds to be absolute) there is also Kovacevic RSS2KML - this one uses XSLT to tranform RSS to KML (i could not get this one to work but it strikes me that a php guru could hack up a simple module to allow output of RSS to KML for drupal)
Sursa: http://www.notez.ro/blog/martin Etichete: bucuresto drupal geotagging google earth google maps kml romania rss2kml visualisations web