Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Barsa - Paella

On Friday the 13th of March it was my younger brother's birthday. As a way to celebrate we went to eat downtown Charleston. 

We visited Barsa. I had been there three other times and had had their paellas: the chicken only and seafood with chorizo. 
Both were good.  However, they either changed chefs or the chef actually took note on special requests, cutting some of the veggies smaller which allowed them to properly cook slowly with the rice and absorbe the safran a little better.

So, we ordered the CHICKEN AND SEAFOOD paella. AMAZING!

Here are two pictures before we dug into it:


Decilously awesome!!


This was their medium size paella.
It was theee of us, two boys and myself.
We dug into it! 

What was very amazing was that the chef did not burn the rice to thw bottom! The last few times you left just about all that was "stuck" which was a lot to the pot. 

Here is what we left this time:
NOTHING! They guys enjoyed it so much! They were seconds from licking the pan! Well not that dramatic! It was amazing! I ate my fair share and left the place contempt.  No need for desert pr anything else. Did not feel like I wouls explode nor did I feel like I over ate. It was perfect! 

The environment was nice, loud but it is a place for young adults or people my age to socialize in. The mojito, not as good. It was like drinking plain zelzer water with some rum. No minty taste and not the sweet kind.

I would recommend this place for future visitors. One thing that threw me off was our waitress was always "guarded" by a fellow worker. Maybe he was learning? Or she was learning? Either way, he could have smiled some! He just made everything a bit uncomfortable.   That was ok. We enjoyed our food either way:)

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