With tasty dishes, huevos of oro misses the finalization of the main

Eating in Sao Paulo is so expensive that when a restaurant you know it’s good to make a mistake well in your turn, it beats a sadness. Even though it is a punctual failure. Even if the rest of the experience was good.

It was like this on a cold Saturday night at Huevos de Oro. The place invokes a pleasant nostalgia to those who once went to the slap bars in Spain. For those who are not familiar with the term, slaps are small portions. And meeting with friends to enjoy them presupposes lively dating to the house wine.

The Huevos menu matches the expectation. Among the entrances, sardines in EMBABECHE (R $ 29) and Spanish cold cuts (R $ 52). There is also the possibility of ordering a mix with four options (R $ 39), accompanied by natural fermentation bread.

The most anxious will go straight to the part of the menu reserved for classic tapas. The sautéed Champiñones (R $ 36) comes with a cured gem in the middle. In addition to the dish, the waiter delivers a bag of paper to each dine – we were in two people. Inside each bag, a single thin toast.

The two puffed ones that surrendered to each one were perfect. The crispness of the toast contrasted with the softness of the gem. And the neutral taste served as the basis for the UMAMI of the mushrooms. But the toast ends quickly, and part of the grace of the portion goes with her.

The trio of meat fries and a built -in called the leftover (R $ 36) was great. The thin layer of pasta could be dry and soft at the same time, and opened to a damp and tasty filling.

The ritual of eating tapas is only complete if accompanied by a good drink. For this beginning of the meal, the chosen drink was Negroni Jerez (R $ 39). The presence of fortified and liqueur to the original recipe yields a delicate and silky result.

To accompany the following paella, the choice was for a fresh wine, soft and pronounced acidity: the orange wine of the house (R $ 175). Produced in Rio Grande do Sul with the Pinot Grigio grape, it is the most affordable of the letter.

The seafood paella (R $ 198), made to share, arrives in the pan. The rice displayed an ununtiness that made salivary just looking. Shrimp, squid, mussel and octopus were in their perfect cooking points. But the dish came with a finishing problem: it was salty at the limit of what can be eaten.

In reputable restaurants like this, nothing comes out of the kitchen without being proven before. Perhaps the dish was released anyway because, according to the waiter had informed at the time of the order, the kitchen was already about to close. And, according to the arrival, Paella’s preparation time was approximately 50 minutes.

Finally, Churros (R $ 22). In the version of the house, they are light and come with dulce de leche – or chocolate – separately. Delicate preparation and comforting mouths that have a little softened the frustration of an experience compromised by a possible oversight of being avoided.