Espai Sucre

Frommer's Review

Espai Sucre (Sugar Space) is Barcelona's most unusual dining room, with a minimalist decor and seating for 30. For the dessert lover, it is like entering a heaven created by the sugar fairy himself. The place has a gimmick, and it works. The menu is devoted to desserts. There is a short list of so-called "salty" dishes for those who want to cool it with the sugar. Actually it's quite good and imaginatively prepared, including the likes of ginger couscous with pumpkin and grilled stingray or artichoke cream with a poached quail egg and serrano ham. The lentil stew with foie gras is first-rate, as are the spicy veal "cheeks" with green apples.

Forget all about those tearoom concoctions you'd find in a pastry cafe. The desserts here are original creations. Your "salad" is likely to be small cubes of spicy milk pudding resting on matchsticks of green apple with baby arugula leaves, peppery caramel, dabs of kaffir lime and lemon curd, and a straight line of toffee. Ever had a soup of litchi, celery, apple, and eucalyptus? If not, you can try them here. If some of the concoctions frighten your palate, you'll find comfort in the more familiar -- vanilla cream with coffee sorbet and caramelized banana. Every dessert comes with a recommendation for the appropriate wine to accompany it.

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