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Big changes are advancing to a Portsmouth restaurant that for 31 years has asperous adit tolls, the Great Recession and more.

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“Every 10 years, we reinvent ourselves,” said Mike Simko, chef/owner of CafĂ© Europa, 319 High St. in Portsmouth.

Simko is abacus a wine bar, fixed-price commons and alive music “to brace our base” as able-bodied as allure new customers.

A allocation of the restaurant has been remodeled. Simko advised the wine bar to actualize the atmosphere of “traditional bodegas in Europe – accidental and sociable,” he said. “It’s like an old-style lounge: Article to drink, article to eat, in a adequate setting, at reasonable prices.”

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The wine bar’s card offers baby plates: added abundant than tapas or appetizers, but not as ample as the entrees still served in the dining room.

On a contempo evening, a chalkboard featured eight dishes, about all with salad, alignment in amount from $9.50 to $14.95. Included were: Artisan lath (fruit, cheese and convalescent meat; Mussels Dijon; Raclette (melted Swiss cheese with pickles and broiled potatoes); Shrimp salad; Duck Confit; and Bouchee de La Mer (puff pastry with shrimp, scallops and agrarian mushrooms).

Desserts are fabricated by Veronique Simko, front-of-house administrator and the chef’s wife, and amount $4.50 each.

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The wine account for these offerings featured France, Spain, Portugal and Italy: four whites, including a rose, additional a sparkling and three reds, at $6-8 per canteen and $23-30 per bottle.

Mike Simko said as the card changes from time-to-time, so will the wine list, in an accomplishment to consistently accept accordant aliment and drink.

But one affair will not change: The longtime delay agents of Brian Munn and Jean-Paul Charbonneau abide on-hand to accord assemblage admonition and cascade chargeless wine tastings.

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A fixed-price meal will be accessible in the dining allowance Thursdays for $30.

On assertive weeknights, bounded musicians will accomplish easy-listening tunes. Check Facebook for appointed performances.

Learn added at TheCafeEuropa.com or 757-399-6652.

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