Italian Style ALBANIAN SEAFOOD!! Shrimp TAVA & Seafood Pasta | Sarandë, Albania

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My twelfth day in Albania continued in the beautiful seaside city of Sarandë! Join me as I tour my amazing hotel and try some delicious Italian-style Albanian seafood in Sarandë, Albania!

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My boy Erjan from Travel Media EU and I began our evening at the Bougainville Bay Hotel. The resort can fit 400 people and consists of a hotel, villas, apartments, four apartments, three restaurants, a spa, and more!

As we headed up to the hotel, we passed some of the villas and lots of flowers. One of the coolest features of the hotel is its spa, which is inspired by Albanian history but still has a modern feel! There are two saunas, an ice room, a snow bath room, a hamam (Turkish bath), a flower-shaped five-person Jacuzzi, and an emotional shower!

In the stairway leading to the second level are made from recycled pieces from bathrooms around the world! Up here, they have massage tables and a VIP area, where there’s a 360-degree infinity pool on the rooftop terrace.

I couldn’t help but take a dip in the water and look over the city. It was so relaxing!

After an hour at the pool, we headed to Lëkurësi Castle to get a view of the sunset. It overlooks the sea, Butrint Lake, and the hills and mountains. The views of Sarandë, the Ionian Sea, and the Greek island of Corfu are absolutely gorgeous! There’s a huge restaurant spread across three terraces and a souvenir shop up there, as well as a defense tower.

Then, we headed off to dinner at Taverna Pupi, which is located on a huge terrace overlooking the Ionian Sea. There’s a beach below, and there’s a tree growing out of the terrace.

I started with a smoky rakija while Erjan had a large Albanian beer. Then, we visited the kitchen to watch a husband-and-wife pair of chefs prepare seafood pasta, risotto, grilled shrimp and squid, misto fritto, stuffed calamari, and more!

At our table, we had stuffed squid, a shrimp tava, a summer salad, bruschetta, and seafood pasta. The bruschetta contained goat cheese and pommodoro and was so tasty! The summer salad contained some refreshing arugula, carrots, and onions. The calamari, shrimp, and the mussel in the pasta de Albania were so succulent, and the pasta was so authentic! It’s the closest you’ll get to real Italian pasta, which is unique to Italy! It’s amazing! You can’t beat the flavor and the freshness of it.

We enjoyed some delicious white wine before I jumped on the shrimp tava, which was somewhat similar to a Greek dish called shrimp saganaki. It was creamy and a little spicy and contained red pepper and tiny shrimp. Adding tabasco to it made it even better!

Lastly, I had the stuffed squid, which was super creamy! It was dense and a little spicy from the pepperoncino. Each dish got better and better!

Next, Erjan and I headed to the strip to have some Albanian cocktails at Orange Cocktail Bar, a popular nightclub on the Ionian Sea. The bar is in the middle with all the tables around it. It’s the best club in Albania!

It was packed! We tried a drink with lemon and cherries, which was so tasty! There was a lot of alcohol in it, but I couldn’t taste it!

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