24 Dec

At 6:20pm the tour group set out for Plaza Major to go for our Christmas Eve dinner. This was an extra dinner Globus included for us because the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao will be closed tomorrow so we won’t be able to go in. It doesn’t feel like Christmas Eve. We had dinner at a restaurant in Plaza Major. Appetisers: zucchini rolled around salmon topped with a light cream cheese with black caviar; entrée: slices of duck with a sweet sauce and flavoured rice Mains: Cochinillo (suckling pig) or grilled...

19:06 / Food / Madrid / Restaurants / Spain / Spanish / Travel
23 Dec

We headed out for dinner at 6pm but not everything was open, since it was still considered early. We picked a restaurant near the main square called Casa del Polto (something to do with octopuses). We tried cuttlefish with garlic sauce, a small piece of potato tortilla (better than yesterday’s, €3.10), paella (still without the crunchy bit at the bottom, but still tasted good, €11), boiled pork knuckle with some sort of leafy veggie topped with paprika (€14), Galician soup with beans (a bit salty, mum and A2...

19:01 / Casa del Polto / Food / Madrid / Restaurants / Spain / Spanish / Travel
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