Friday Night Dinner: Apego
We recently visited Porto in Northern Portugal, where we were also in need of dinner. A while away from the busy hubbub of the riverside and the touristic areas of the city, we found ourselves on an unremarkable street in front of Apego.
We were welcomed in, and seated on a nice table near the kitchen in the calm and rustic restaurant. You can either choose a tasting menu of 5 courses, or eat à la carte. Five courses seemed a bit much, and we wanted to select our own courses, so we picked the latter option.
The menu is not very extensive, but each course did come with wine recommendations. As a started, I picked the Atlantic bonito crudo on a bed of beetroot and crème fraîche with a seeded cracker. My wife decided on the corn empanada with mushrooms, cucumber, and lime. Usually I have a red wine, and my wife a white, but in this case the recommended wines were of the opposite colour. The red to go with my wife's empanada wasn't totally fitting, and she liked my white more.
This meant that for our main courses she disregarded the recommendation and instead had the wine I had with my starter. As main course, she selected the artichoke with egg, pesto and Parmesan, whereas I opted for the pork shank, which was served with a crispy potato dish. Just like the starters, the mains were well cooked, with balanced flavours, with a delightful presentation.
The deserts looked great too, and to finish our meal, I picked the coffee tarte, while my wife choose the "Chou", served with strawberries and basil. We paired that with a Madeira, and, as we were in Porto, a glass of port.
Apego was a really nice experience, with great food and atmosphere. It's a little out of the way, but well worth visiting.
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
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No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
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Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
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