FLAMBEE TERROR

A CONSUMER group has called for inspections on all restaurants of an Italian chain, after a fire left two dead.

Facua insisted all Burro Canaglia’s should be urgently checked around Malaga, Cuenca, Huelva, Santander, Alicante and Sevilla, where it has branches. It comes after a blaze broke out in its Madrid venue killing a 25-year-old waiter and a 43-year-old customer and injuring 12.

He added: “Just before leaving Obama entered the kitchen and told us it had been one of their best meals and if they could take a photo with the team.”

Amar, which specialises in fish and seafood, served up plenty of classics for them including oysters, although prepared in ‘eight different ways’j and shellfish.

The ‘very normal table’ also tried brioche toast with butter and caviar, Rosas prawns, and wagyu meat. For dessert? The chef’s macerated fruit cheesecake. Described as ‘a dinner with true friends’, they drank ‘a little’ and went to bed shortly after 2am. Barack and Michelle Obama were in town to see Springsteen’s new European tour kick off at the Olympic stadium on Friday. The political pair were spotted visiting various Barcelona sites, including the Moco Museum and the Sagrada Familia.

Artificial plants held in place by a wire mesh caught alight and fell onto the tables and floor, blocking the entrance. It has emerged that a waiterthe man who died - accidently set fire to the decorations as he tried to flambee a dessert with a catering blowtorch.

Grim future

THE company responsible for controversial plans to build the world’s first octopus farm has launched a staunch defence after a public outcry.

Ignacio Gonzalez, the CEO of Nueva Pescanova, which is proposing to set the farm up in the Canary Islands, claimed that the method is the ‘future of the oceans.’

Documents suggest the proposals would employ intensive farming of octopuses, a species that has never been farmed on such a large scale before.

JEREZ de la Frontera is at the heart of the sherry triangle, the cradle of flamenco, and home to dancing horses. It’s also a city which knows how to party. And there is no better way of finding out than at one of Spain’s most flamboyant ferias – the Feria del Caballo –which takes place from May 6 to 13… and, unlike nearby Sevilla, everyone’s invited.

A glittering society event (albeit with some bawdy carousing in the early hours), Jerez’s feria started out in the traditional way as a horse fair in a field in the middle ages. Even then, ‘trading’ involved late night partying, and the occupants of surrounding houses risked being fined the equivalent of a euro if they failed to keep a lantern burning so the goings-on were illuminated.

Now, when someone important flicks the switch on May 8 at 10pm, Parque Gonzalez Hontoria, the vast fairground in the south of the city which, for most of the year, is a 52-hectare dark (square) roundabout, will be lit up (fuses allowing) by over 1.3 million points of light,