Accompanying vegetarian dishes include stewed black lentils with kidney beans; eggplant in almond sauce, and fresh peas with cottage cheese and cumin.

The vegetable balls were mealy and too characterless for my taste, and the raisin-spiked almond sauce was excessively sweet.

Pounded, breaded veal with almond sauce is a bit sweet for my taste; barbecued pork comes with the same sauce.

Start with the mussels in almond sauce or the grilled Ibiza sea crab salad.

Spoon on about 1/3 of the almond sauce.

The food was tasty: I had a venison sauerbraten in a red wine and almond sauce.

From a whole menu page of chile rellenos, we chose the knockout green poblano stuffed with cheese, squash blossoms, and corn served with almond sauce.

Even a roast chicken takes flight in his hands, served with a stew of organic carrots, white carrot-parsnip puree and a lemon thyme and almond sauce.

The restaurant may not have tongue in almond sauce, but it serves a first-rate morcilla, or blood sausage, uncompromisingly rich, with a black, fluffy interior.

Meat dishes include meatballs with almond sauce and pork loin with plums.