La Hoja is trumpeted as a pioneer of the new wave in cocina salmantina - which means that the char-grilled ox steak comes with red-pepper jus and the presa ibérica (a prized cut of Iberian pork) is served as an exquisite carpaccio.
There was cockie leekie (a soup of fowl and leeks); egg à l'Argenteuil (scrambled eggs with asparagus tips); veal and ham pie; Norwegian anchovies; corned ox tongue; grilled mutton chops with mashed, fried or baked jacket potatoes; and custard pudding.
Try the grilled game platter, chicken livers, ox tongue, samp (a coarse meal) and beans.
I settled for the local Three Horses beer and some grilled zebu, the hump-backed Madagascar ox that eats cactus.
He serves not only lamb hearts, but ox, which he is dishes up with grilled asparagus, baby leeks and anchovy vinaigrette, and duck, which he likes to spear with chorizo on a skewer of crisp spaghetti.
The 2005 Trapiche Broquel, also $12 ,offered winning aromas of violets, lavender, licorice and berries, while our No. 3 wine, the 2005 Ox Gran Reserva from Sur — just $10 — seemed, like many of these wines, to scream out for grilled beef.
The event also features Jonathan Gold favorites like Lazy Ox Canteen, Starry Kitchen and Guelaguetza, as well as tried-and-true spots like Yuca's, the Grilled Cheese Truck and the Lobos Truck.
