Clon is the slightly more casual sister restaurant of the incredible Merito. Often the second restaurant can be an afterthought – sometimes great for one or two dishes but mostly used as a funnel for people who can’t get into the ‘main place’. No chances of that here – Clon swings and hits with every single step of the food.
First up, an excellent ceviche meets tartare with a granita of green sauce and a slice of fresh-as-you-like avocado dusted with beetroot powder. It looks beautiful and tastes even better, especially with the corn torrejas that accompany it. Next, chilli peppers stuffed with fish sausage and topped with kimchi and various sauces. For main, a sea bass curry, packed with flavour, served with tubers and onion, and accompanied by an incredible black tuber and garlic rice. The fish is cooked perfectly and the flavours are extremely well balanced.
Then the flan. The Merito flan. The beautiful, creamy, unctuous, sticky, delicious flan of dreams. This flan is, imo, one of the three finest desserts ever created on this earth, alongside the cheesecake at the original Tickets in Barcelona and the tipsy cake and spit roasted pineapple from Dinner By Heston Blumenthal. It is truly a thing of magic.
by NoYear619