Food | Boqueria Restaurant - Part 3

The Perfect Spanish Wines to Pair with your Thanksgiving Feast

Whether you’re dining out at Boqueria or enjoying your meal at home in your Thanksgiving pants – Boqueria Beverage Director Kieran Chavez’s guide to perfect pairings will ensure that your Thanksgiving dinner this year is one to remember!

 

 

4 bottles of Spanish wine we love, and available at Boqueria for Thanksgiving meals!

Come Thanksgiving, we always like to add a few Iberian touches to our favorite American classics on the table.

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ALPINE SPRITZ COCKTAIL

Alpine Spritz Cocktail

Yield: One Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 heavy dash Grapefruit bitters – we recommend Fee Brothers
1 heavy dash Eucalyptus bitters – we recommend Hella Bitters
1 oz Fords Gin
½ oz Zirbenz
½ oz Rosemary Syrup (recipe below)
3.5 oz Castellroig Rosat
Garnish: 1 sprig rosemary

Rosemary Syrup:

2 sprigs fresh rosemary, destemmed
1 cup granulated white sugar
1 cup water

Preperation
For the Rosemary Syrup:

Bring water to a boil and then quickly remove from heat.

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BUÑUELOS DE BACALAO

Salt Cod Fritters

At eighteen, I started my first fine-dining apprenticeship at Can Gaig, a storied Michelin-starred Barcelona restaurant with a history dating back to the 1800s. While there, I noticed that many of the dishes on the menu could have been lifted right from the daily lunch specials at Bar Roca, the little bar-restaurant my mother ran near the Sagrada Família.

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SPANISH SUMMER PICNICS

…A BLANKET STATEMENT

Picnic food—there really is no better way to eat outdoors. There’s a certain magic to taking simple ingredients best enjoyed in the sunshine and setting them down against a picture-perfect backdrop. And whether you’re sitting down to feast on vibrant tomatoes paired with summer plums, a refreshing cucumber salad, or a board stacked high with crusty bread and artisan cheeses – we can promise you one thing: a picnic is not a truly successful occasion unless you have a huge mess to shake off of the blanket afterwards!

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