We had another nice dinner at Sayola tonight. Unfortunately I didn’t realize that they have live flamenco dancing on the last Sunday night of every month, so we couldn’t sit in the main fancy dining room. We had to sit in the smaller room that is usually reserved for small parties.
We started off with an excellent special appetizer of fresh figs stuffed with blue cheese, over Serrano ham and radicchio, and drizzled with balsamic vinegar. We also shared a scallop dish stuffed with seafood and topped with béchamel and cheese gratin, as well as beef empanadas. For entrees Mrs. P had red tuna tataki crusted with sesame seeds, with teriyaki sauce, wasabi, and mango. I had the paella with shrimp, lobster, clams,mussels, calamari, chicken, chorizo, and black squid ink rice. The paella is NOT burned. That is the black squid ink which embedded itself into EVERYTHING! My fingers, face, and teeth were all covered in black. I thought I was scarred for life 
You had to see the horrified look on Mrs. P’s face 
I looked like the Joker from Batman 
She picked the wrong day to wear white 
Next time I stick with the yellow rice. Luckily our experienced server brought over 2 moist wash cloths and lemon slices. He poured boiling water over the wash cloths and told me to bite into the lemons to get the ink off of my teeth and squeeze it on to my fingers. The lemon and hot wash cloth definitely helped get the black ink off. I just thought that the black squid ink rice would go good with our Cooper and Thief red blend aged in bourbon barrels for three months. It was just made it worse because I had to touch all of the shell fish to get the fish out of the shells.
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