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Tender milk-fed lamb loin and a satisfying Welsh rarebit were all cooked to perfection -- and even those who normally shrug at desserts, like me, will pledge allegiance to the dense malted chocolate tart with salted caramel ice-cream.

AUnlike the tapas ventures, Asador is a more, shall we call it, meaty journey into what Spanish cuisine is about, with Galician and Welsh beef on offer side-by-side - as well as other delicious catches like suckling pig and milk-fed lamb.

Tinto, and Tapeo before it, evolved from Natalia and Nacho's Spanish food supply business Lola Espana, and their passion for produce and provenance shows in dishes like the Menorcan milk-fed lamb shoulder (PS24), roasted slowly and simply with rosemary and potatoes that have cooked to confit softness in the melting fat.

Spanish-born Javier de la Hormaza is bringing the best of his home country to British shores with the launch of Grey's Fine Foods, a retail and wholesale food business which will offer rare delicacies such as milk-fed lamb, acorn-fed Iberico ham, marron glace and 100-year-old Brandy--to name but a few of the 100-plus products.

It includes milk-fed lamb from the Pyrenees, saffroninfused flatbread and edible gold leaf garnish.

Body composition studies with the milk-fed lamb. 2.

Meanwhile the vision of him stuffing his face with everything from pink conger eel to milk-fed lamb is not going to fly away.

For the main course they tucked into milk-fed lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard accompanied by black truffles.

Go for local specialities such as Saltimbocca alla Romana (thin slices of veal and ham topped with sage), succulent Abbacchio (young milk-fed lamb) or Fiori di Zucca (deep-fried Zucchini flowers stuffed with Mozzarella cheese).

For the main course, they tucked in to milk-fed lamb, flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard and accompanied by black truffles.

A 20-35 pound live weight milk-fed lamb or kid is favored.

Caviar, smoked salmon, crab, milk-fed lamb - the list of luxuries goes on and on.