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MONDAY JULY 21, 2008
Chicken or Beef?
As a rule, go airborne and you're in for a pretty sorry excuse for a dining experience. Your airline menu may have been concocted by the likes of Sergi Arola and Gordon Ramsey, but to me that singular piece of lettuce still looks limp and the dessert rather wobbly.

It may be a step up from the chicken-beef-or-pasta alu boxes with their 'unique' variation on the old unidentifiable mash theme, but dinner off the ground has always been less than inviting. Or at least it used to be.

Now you can take flight in Montjuïc's cable cars which are serving dinner from gourmet deli Goulaffres every Tuesday night. No chicken or beef, but a light menu of gazpacho, goat's cheese salad, pear and duck confit and a fruit skewer. It comes with sides of unbeatable city views, bossa nova tunes and fresh supplies every 15 minutes when passing one of the stations.

Up to six diners fit in the comfy gondolas - gone are the antiquated red tubs - and whilst it is possible to book an intimate journey for two, fooling around on this flight won't get you in the mile high club. We hear the quarter-mile lot are apparently accepting applications though.

Picnic al Cel - 21h on Tuesdays until September 22
Teleférico de Montjuïc
EUR 40 per person - 93 414 6788

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