First time coming across this popular Catalonian dessert and I'm particularly impressed with how Restaurant Gaig has managed to elevate 2 key simple ingredients to such heights of ambrosial flavour.
We have chocolate 3 ways -- nestled in sea salt chocolate crumb is a quenelle of smooth, intense chocolate sorbet topped with spheres of olive oil. Beside it, shards of crispy bread jut like defiant spires from a base of creamy chocolate ganache.
The juxtaposition of contrasting textures and flavour combinations work in tandem brilliantly and this is one dessert I'll not be forgetting anytime soon.
What a fitting finale to a fine meal with attentive yet unobtrusive service, in a very elegant yet relaxed space.
Course 7 of 7 from the Traditional Menu (€68)