Leut at Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera, Mlini, Croatia

This post marks the start of a marathon of posts. We have arrived at out vacation spot for this Summer. The next 14 days will be busy.

On the eve of our arrival in Croatia we did not need or want to venture far from the hotel. We settled on the main restaurant of the hotel.

Dinner buffet, Tuesday around 19.00.

We tried mostly new dishes and the focus will be on those, but this will never the less be a longer post.

✔️ great 〰️ can improve or not as described or disliked ➗ bad

1st plate.

Z's:
🍽️Venison goulash ✔️
🍽️ Fried sea bass in Dalmation style (H tasted) ✔️ loved it (H was not delighted)
🍽️ Fried vegetables✔️
🍽️ Beef Wellington 〰️ See H
🍽️ Cheese puff ✔️ Heavy, but nice, could have been warmer.
🍽️ Mushrooms in tempura 〰️ See H
🍽️ Bread + butter✔️

H's:
🍽️ Potatos ✔️
🍽️ Salmon beetroot salad ✔️
🍽️ Bruschetta with tomat ✔️
🍽️ Beef Wellington 〰️ The sauce bowl was too small H got a feeling of emptying it every time. The presentation on the plate could be improved; when it was cut, the knife seemed too dull and broke the pastry instead of cutting it. The beef and pastry was perfekt.
🍽️ Cheese puff 〰️ Luke warm
🍽️Mushrooms in tempura 〰️ Chewy; maybe it would be better served freshly fried.

2nd plate:

Z's
🍽️Chicken paté 〰️ Did not like. It may been general for chicken paté, but Z does eat other patés happily.
🍽️ Goat cheese & beetroot terrine 〰️ Did not like.
🍽️ Cucumber + salat + yogurt ✔️
🍽️ Cheeses 〰️ The cheeses were interesting and mostly likeable. Would have loved a more detailed sign with all the cheese names.
🍽️ Bread + butter✔️

H's
🍽️ Beef Wellington 〰️ See above
🍽️ Pork and vegetable skewers ✔️Nicely charred
🍽️ Shark with tartar (Z tasted) 〰️ We both found it boring. The tartar was the star
🍽️ Dried meats ✔️
🍽️ Bread + butter ✔️

3rd plate:

Z's
🍽️ Glutenfree brownie ➗ See H
🍽️ Chocolate cake (H tasted) 〰️ The spongecake were a bit dry, the filling was nice, but not moist enough to help the dry cake.
🍽️ Vanilla pudding topped with hazelnut creme ✔️ Z could only taste a small bit of the hazelnut creme, but it was very nice, creamy and with small pieces of nuts. The pudding was as a pudding should be, perfectly smooth, but firm.
🍽️ Watermelon and cantaloupe ✔️ Sweet and fresh, but see H for some critic on the watermelon texture.

H's
🍽️ Cake pop #1 ✔️ H thinks it was flavoured with marzipan and liquor. A good dessert.
🍽️ Cake Pop #2 ✔️H thinks it was flavoured with chocolate marzipan. A good dessert.
🍽️ Glutenfree Brownie ➗ Very dry, it did not have the almost raw core
🍽️ Baklava with pistachio (Z tasted) 〰️ Not to our taste, felt more like a savvy dish in the mouth then a dessert. This may be how it is suppose to taste.
🍽️ Sneakers 〰️ Could taste more of Sneakers, the whipped cream was the dominant flavour still.
🍽️ Watermelon 〰️ The watermelon tasted 'floury'. The terminology may be wrong, translating the Danish word failed. It is an word mostly regarding texture and mouth feel, the fruit feels grainy in the mouth and leaves the mouth feeling dry. This can happen in both watermelons and apples.

Our meal was accompanied by still and sparkling water respectively.

The service was great and the waiters were tentative.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the food was perfect, service was great. The buffet did disappoint abit in the dessert department.



H&Z

=don’t
⭐️= never again
⭐️⭐️= less then expected
⭐️⭐️⭐️= great experience
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️= perfect
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️= above and beyond





Our plates













The Buffet