Day: May 5, 2023

Jamón is very popular in Spain. Essentially a cured pig leg I guess. They slice it thin. You can see some on the packaged, sliced jamón on the right of this photo.

We have had some that was very good and some that was less good. Now I know why. I saw them in a supermarket a while ago and they were €40. The one on the top left is €270. The one on the top right is €130. The lower ones were €70.

We must be going native. We didn’t wait that long to order. We didn’t wait that long for the each course to come. We didn’t eat that slowly. But somehow it took over an hour and half to have lunch. And 1:30 seemed a bit early for lunch, we usually go at 2:30 or 3.

Post by Wynette:

As we mentioned yesterday, it’s across from a large park where some kind of music event was happening. We were complaining about how loud and unpleasant the music was and how it went on for ten (ten!) hours. But, shortly after we made that post last night, the music stopped. Whew. So far, it hasn’t returned.

Now to talk about the apartment itself. It’s hugely spacious and all rooms but the kitchen are quite sunny. It’s a corner apartment on the third floor (“piso 2” here) in a high-rise apartment building. It’s pretty basic with somewhat funky furnishings, etc. But we like it. Here are some photos.

Just next to our building, like 50 feet away, are three highly rated restaurants, one Spanish, one Brazilian, and one Mexican. Wynette is hungry for Mexican food so that is on our list but we went to the Spanish one yesterday because it had a fixed-price “menu” which we like.

The restaurant turned out to be a near gourmet restaurant with excellent food. Here is the menu:

This was the first fixed-price menu we have seen which has extra cost options. Big spenders we got both the scallops and the medallions.

We almost didn’t get to have lunch there. We went in and the waiter said they were completely booked up, normally a good sign but disappointing if you want to have lunch. We were in the entry area separated from the main dining room. We asked if we could make reservations for tomorrow. There was a little, round, high table there with stools, apparently for people to have drinks while waiting. As he was getting the book out, Wynette, ever bold, asked if we could eat there. He looked and thought a bit. We were both sure he would say no but he said okay. They served us there and very very nice about it.

After we were blown away by the first course we said, we are definitely coming back, so today we have reservations for 1:30 and we get to eat at a normal table, sitting on chairs that have backs! And maybe a tablecloth.