Would you pay? The restaurant serves bread as a main course on a menu that costs R$765

The bread basket is part of one of the stages of the tasting menu of the luxury Michelin-starred restaurant, located in Lisbon

While some restaurants serve a basket of bread as a starter and even complimentary “on the house”, the luxury Cura, based in Lisbon, Portugal, manages to serve the dish as one of the stops on the tasting menu which costs 145 euros (about R $765).

The restaurant led by chef Pedro Pena Bastos is one Michelin star and includes a basket of bread in one of the three tasting menus, Origens, divided into 13 stages.

The dish is served in a basket with rustic wheat bread and milk, accompanied by butter cured with smoked hay and Portuguese olive oil produced by the chef’s family.

“Our bread is made with ground cereals, mainly ancient wheat and malted varieties, which give it much more flavor and texture. Then we ferment for 24 hours, protected from the cold, and bake just before serving”, explained Pedro Bastos at Daily Mail.

The cold-pressed olive oil that accompanies the dish is “bread’s best friend,” according to the chef.

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Luxury with ‘simplicity’

The Michelin guide website describes the place, which is part of the luxury Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon in the Portuguese capital, as a luxurious home, “with an apparent simplicity that involves the use of a few ingredients, mainly local and seasonal”.

In addition to bread, the tasting menu offers a variety of dishes: mackerel strips with sweet potatoes, tuna tartare balls with smoked broth and green beans, and calamari with roasted seaweed butter and caviar. The dish served after the bread basket was grouper, cubes of Iberian pork and also pigeon cooked with broccoli and beetroot.

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