La Terraza del Casino

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The very staid environs of this gentlemen's club dining room (wear a tie) provide the unlikely setting for a restaurant inspired and partly overseen by superchef and molecular gastronomist Ferran Adrià. Diners, for the most part, look utterly nonplussed by dishes such as 'Dragon Oil' - balls of texturised olive oil partly frozen in clouds of liquid nitrogen at the table, into which the diner bites, emitting smoke from the nose. These theatrical culinary events and the beauty of dishes such as the tiny filo 'ice-cream cone' of trout roe, quail's yolk and wasabi do not detract, however, from the flavours, which are out of this world.