Interviewer: Hi, Jo.
Jo: Hello.
Interviewer: Thank you for talking to me today. What would you like to talk about?
Jo: So, I'm going to tell you about my recent visit to, erm, a very well-known restaurant and a very special restaurant.
Interviewer: OK – great.
Jo: It's called El Celler de Can Roca and it's in
Girona in Spain and, erm, it often comes in the, like, top two or three
restaurants in the world.
Interviewer: Wow!
Jo: And I went last week. And, well, the first thing
that was exciting for us was to even get a table 'cause, erm, we booked
a year ago and we had to go, you have to go, 'cause you can book a year
in advance, so you have to go online at one minute to midnight a year
before you think you could go and keep refreshing, refreshing the page
until places become available and just go immediately and get the table.
So, we were really excited to have the table and we were kind of
nervous on Friday because we waited a whole year, so expectations were
really high. And it was also, by chance, boiling hot in Girona and it
was in the middle of a heatwave. It was 44 degrees.
Interviewer: Oh my goodness.
Jo: So, we were just waiting in our hotel room,
couldn't go outside 'cause it was too hot, erm, kind of wondering what
this dinner was going to be like, er, and getting all dressed up. So,
yeah, we went and, well, the place is beautiful, all … I thought it
would be quite, erm, it didn't really feel formal though. The staff were
all really friendly and they showed us inside the kitchen first. And
it's amazing 'cause no one is stressed in the kitchen – or they did a
good job of pretending that they weren't. And they were making amazing
things that looked like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for adults –
little olive trees with amazing, like, erm, er, olive kind of
confections hanging from them. And, yeah, the whole thing was amazing – a
once-in-a-lifetime experience of lots of different courses of tiny,
beautiful, surprising things, erm …
Interviewer: What was the best dish that you had?
Jo: It was all amazing but I think the best thing for me was one of the desserts. I had a sheep-themed pudding …
Interviewer: Wow!
Jo: So, it was all, erm – So, it was like a woolly
sheep. It was like candy floss, like, made with, erm, like, sort of
white sugar like you have at the fair. Erm, and that was supposed to
represent the wool, and the sound of the spoon on the bowl made the
sound of the bell on the sheep in the field. And then separately I had
this thing to smell that smelled of wool. So I was, like, eating this
sheep wool and smelling the smell of wool at the same time which, it
sounds really weird, but it was actually delicious.
Interviewer: Sounds incredible!
Jo: It really was! It really was amazing.
Interviewer: Wow. Thank you for telling us about it.
Jo: It's a pleasure.
