There are two restaurants on each side of the path to the Dalboka Mussel Farm, each with its own staff hawking the delights within. We followed the one who spoke first and so had lunch at Fish Restaurant Dalboka on the left as you face the sea. Never had any of us ever had fresher mussels in more preparations. We consumed mussel salad, mussels with rice, mussels seamen’s style, grilled mussels on skewers and battered fried mussels. Possibly we ate still more, but we did pass on the dessert of mussels in caramel sauce. Fish Restaurant Dalboka not only had first-class food and service, but tables situated to catch the sea breeze.
We enjoyed the place so much that we decided to return the next afternoon and try the other restaurant as well as equip ourselves with beach towels and bathing suits to explore the little beach. Crowded as the restaurant was, the beach was essentially ours alone. At one point, we saw a small boat come south from the Romanian coast only 30 miles away, equipped with a Romanian flag and three men ready to eat mussels. We somehow built a ravenous appetite doing nothing but swimming and sitting in the sun. That’s how we discovered that restaurant number two could not compete with restaurant number one. We felt compelled to traipse across to the uncrowded but superior restaurant where we’d been the previous day and ordered a couple of melbas to make amends. Waiting for the melbas, we saw a brown pelican sitting on the rocks below. The pelican sat placidly there, undisturbed by my children’s noisy excitement and pointing.
Your photos bring back such great memories. Thank you so much for sharing them.
There are two restaurants on each side of the path to the Dalboka Mussel Farm, each with its own staff hawking the delights within. We followed the one who spoke first and so had lunch at Fish Restaurant Dalboka on the left as you face the sea. Never had any of us ever had fresher mussels in more preparations. We consumed mussel salad, mussels with rice, mussels seamen’s style, grilled mussels on skewers and battered fried mussels. Possibly we ate still more, but we did pass on the dessert of mussels in caramel sauce. Fish Restaurant Dalboka not only had first-class food and service, but tables situated to catch the sea breeze.
We enjoyed the place so much that we decided to return the next afternoon and try the other restaurant as well as equip ourselves with beach towels and bathing suits to explore the little beach. Crowded as the restaurant was, the beach was essentially ours alone. At one point, we saw a small boat come south from the Romanian coast only 30 miles away, equipped with a Romanian flag and three men ready to eat mussels. We somehow built a ravenous appetite doing nothing but swimming and sitting in the sun. That’s how we discovered that restaurant number two could not compete with restaurant number one. We felt compelled to traipse across to the uncrowded but superior restaurant where we’d been the previous day and ordered a couple of melbas to make amends. Waiting for the melbas, we saw a brown pelican sitting on the rocks below. The pelican sat placidly there, undisturbed by my children’s noisy excitement and pointing.
Your photos bring back such great memories. Thank you so much for sharing them.