A capon is a rooster that has been castrated, apparently the effect of castration is to make the meat more tender. As this was their speciality even though there were other things on the menu we decided to try a couple of different recipes, one served with an orange sauce the other with a mushroom sauce. They were both nice although I think I'd made the mistake of filling up too much with my starter which was a substantial (and very tasty) dish of vegetable risotto. We also made a mistake with dessert, we should have realised that the fact that the "Chocolate sauce with truffle" dessert was so high meant that it would contain real live (or previously live) truffles. Now I get that truffles are a delicacy, and I'm just about coming round to the fact that they can add something to savoury dishes but I really didn't feel that they added anything to what would otherwise have been a nice choclatey dessert!
There was one really nice touch early on in the evening: they didn’t have the wine we’d ordered, rather than just giving us the wine list again or bringing an alternative the waiter let us try 3 of the white wines they did have and said they’d even discount the most expensive one. We ended up going for a Crvik white wine which was the best wine I had all holiday. I think this really highlighted my feelings that you can have problems at any restaurant but the mark of a good restaurant (and one that you want to go back to) is how they deal with problems.
We were lucky that the rain stayed away and we were able to sit on the terrace in the very pleasant surroundings of a quiet square opposite the Jesuit church of St Ignatius, at the top of a set of Baroque steps that was modelled on the Spanish Steps.
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There was one really nice touch early on in the evening: they didn’t have the wine we’d ordered, rather than just giving us the wine list again or bringing an alternative the waiter let us try 3 of the white wines they did have and said they’d even discount the most expensive one. We ended up going for a Crvik white wine which was the best wine I had all holiday. I think this really highlighted my feelings that you can have problems at any restaurant but the mark of a good restaurant (and one that you want to go back to) is how they deal with problems.
We were lucky that the rain stayed away and we were able to sit on the terrace in the very pleasant surroundings of a quiet square opposite the Jesuit church of St Ignatius, at the top of a set of Baroque steps that was modelled on the Spanish Steps.
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| Vegetable risotto with a bit of cheese |
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| Capon with an orange sauce and gnocchi |
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| My favourite wine |
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| Chocolate sauce and truffle |
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| Dubrovnik's "Spanish Steps" |
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