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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 02 Feb 2006 21:33:53
Since I have been in Romania, I have met few people who play boardgames. I don't know if the fact that there are no shops with a decent selection of games (and no, 'Nu te supara frate!' does not count) is the cause of the lack of interest or whether it is a a cultural thing. I know the scandinavians, germans and english are big on games - perhaps it is more to do with the weather than the culture... I was brought up on boardgames - Monopoly, Risk, Cluedo, Scrabble, or more recently Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary were standard fare at family get-togethers...I am babbling so, getting to the point, my own family here in Romania have a new game - we received the Really Nasty Horse Racing Game for Christmas and have been playing it once or twice a week since - we like it so thought I would share why. After this paragraph, the rest of the post is in hreview format - the text should show up ok in the browser but if you view the source you will see that it is marked up in a structured format so that in the unlikely event that a review-bot comes spidering one day for a boardgame review on notez.ro - it will be able to extract the contents really easily. I used Ryan King's hreview creator until someone clever creates an hreview microformat node type in Drupal.... 0.2 The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game combines betting and standard dice and board setup into a fast moving family game Feb 1, 2006 by Martin Stobbs product The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game **** The basic setup There is a board with a racetrack with up to 6 horses on it and you move round the board by moving the number of spaces shown by the roll of a die. There are fences and water hazards and other players have "Really Nasty" cards which can make your horse fall, lose turns at the start of a race, career wildly in the finishing straight etc. There are six races with varying amounts of prize money. The aim of the game is to end up with the most money. So far, it sounds simplistic, purely luck-based and awful BUT IT IS ANYTHING BUT - the key is the betting. Before each of 6 races, you place a secret bet on a horse to win the race (the amount is shown to all players but who you have backed is not) Betting The odds of a horse winning are calculated approximately by multiplying a horse's lane number drawn randomly before the game (1-6) by a player-selected 'stable number' (also 1 to 6 - each number used once in the six-race set). This means that winning a 50 thousand pound bet on a 20 to 1 shot will net you a whole lot more than winning the even the biggest prize of 250 thousand pounds in the Kings Trophy...even if that horse is not yours! Judiciously placing your ill-gotten gains on another long shot can rapidly build your winnings to astronomical numbers. Strategy One key element is to make sure your opponents are not sure what horse you have bet on - they will try to do nasty things to your chosen horse but will be unlikely to try to nobble a horse on which they have bet - once a horse has been knocked out of a race, its stable owner can still participate in the race by playing his nasty cards since he may still have a bet on one of the remianing horses. You don't want to use your own limited supply of really nasty cards unless you have to. I would say that it is pretty important to win a bet in the first or second race otherwise your stake money dwindles rapidly. If you are lucky with the die and you are leading in the finishing straight, you may even end up nobbling your own horse in order to make sure the horse you backed wins - really nasty...see? Summary So I would say, a great game especially for mixed ages - takes around an hour for a full game, does not require total concentration. Up to now, we have been playing with just three of us but I am sure it is better with 5 or 6 players - maybe we will have some friends over this weekend... Tags: betting games boardgame really_nasty horse hreview microformat structured_blogging
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