Viajante

This is a badly-photographed collage of the incredible tasting menu at Viajante, which doesn't do the immacutately-presented food justice. Sadly it's closing at the end of this month, and head chef Nuno Mendes moving onto somewhere else.

Top-to-bottom, left-to-right, the courses in order were:
- Amêijoa bulhão pato - a gelatinous clam with coriander oil
- buttermilk meringue - with cabbage and chicken skin I think
- amaranth with sorrel - delicious popcorn
- yeast and potatoes - like a cheesy bacon sandwich
- gordal olive soup
- bread and butter - one of the breads made from potato, the other filled with bits of smoked ham I think
- sea urchin, milk whey and taro - first time I'd had sea urchin, sort of like roe but a bit firmer; not too fishy
- cuttlefish with cabbage and lardo
- chewy scallops with lactose
- salsify with pine and mushroom
- razor clam ramen
- topinambur with brown crab and buttermilk emulsion
- langoustine and braised chicken skin
- beets and cheese
- beef with carrot miso and watercress
- iberico presa with leek and walnuts
- cucumber with reduced milk - a lovely amuse-bouche to cleanse the palate before dessert
- fig with zabaglione

Missing from the above collage, there was also the famous 'Milk' dessert course, and some petits fours.