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June is Portuguese heritage month, as mentioned, and it never hurts to highlight the one aspect of a culture that can be tried and appreciated by all - the food! Though lesser known than some of its other European or Mediterranean counterparts, Portuguese cuisine is still very familiar.
This week in the Straight, they review A Taste of Portugal, off Kingsway & Victoria. The menu is heavy with tapas ("More of the bocconcinilike homemade cheese sat on five large tomato slices adorned with olives and drizzled with olive oil, both from Portugal.") and represents Portuguese food from the different regions: From "the yellowish slabs of salted, dried cod in the bacalhau shops" around Lisbon to northern regions of places like Nazare, "where fat sardines sputter over a charcoal grill, emitting delicious smoky, fishy smells" along with your bottle of vinho verde. Since much of the country is on the coastline, the seafood isnt much of a surprise and neither are the similarities that some of the dishes share with its neighbor to the east in Spain: "Pork and clams combined sounds challenging, too, but works in the same way that sausage and shrimp work in paella."
"Down-to-earth flavours bring Portugal home"
A TASTE OF PORTUGAL
2141 Kingsway (just east of Victoria), Vancouver
604-438-9341.
Open Wednesday to Monday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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