The best and the worst Sevilla has to offer
Current mood: refreshed
Yesterday´s food--
We had the most disgusting lunch I can remember EVER. It was some OK paella with chunks of pork and scallops, followed by fried fish (some white kind that´s not very big) and a bunch of bigger-than-sardines but not that big fish, with a salad. The white fish was disgusting, horrible, worse than chicken!!!!! The waiter was awful also, practically threw the menus at us, then demanded to know what we were going to eat. When we asked for the check, he scowled $14, like duh idiots, you saw the price on the menu. We threw the money on the table and ran. Then I remembered why I rarely eat out in Sevilla. The restaurant food is not that great.
So for dinner, Paz took us to this neighborhood seafood restaurant. It´s the only place I´ve ever been with her, so I think it may be the only place she goes to. Amazing. First were boiled, salted shrimp, so perfect you could compose an opera just singing their praises. Then, crab legs and crab salad in the body of the crab. Exquisite. Then more of those fried fish, smelt I think they´re called. Tender, flaky, ummmummummm. Dessert...a plate full of different kinds and a selection of dessert liquors. I picked the brown one from Extremadura, which is Paz´s home province. I didn´t know what it was made of, I didn´t understand the words she was telling me, except that it´s from the stuff that pigs eat. Now, in the US pigs eat just about everything, right? No, apparently spanish pigs eat acorns. That´s it. So it was a sweet, light acorn licour. Delicious.
The last couple days I´ve slept until noon. all this Spanish makes me very tired. Jason sleeps until I wake him up, so not sure what his excuse is.
OK, gotta go. The Cathedral is calling. They will scalp me if I don´t take him to see it.
Yesterday´s food--
We had the most disgusting lunch I can remember EVER. It was some OK paella with chunks of pork and scallops, followed by fried fish (some white kind that´s not very big) and a bunch of bigger-than-sardines but not that big fish, with a salad. The white fish was disgusting, horrible, worse than chicken!!!!! The waiter was awful also, practically threw the menus at us, then demanded to know what we were going to eat. When we asked for the check, he scowled $14, like duh idiots, you saw the price on the menu. We threw the money on the table and ran. Then I remembered why I rarely eat out in Sevilla. The restaurant food is not that great.
So for dinner, Paz took us to this neighborhood seafood restaurant. It´s the only place I´ve ever been with her, so I think it may be the only place she goes to. Amazing. First were boiled, salted shrimp, so perfect you could compose an opera just singing their praises. Then, crab legs and crab salad in the body of the crab. Exquisite. Then more of those fried fish, smelt I think they´re called. Tender, flaky, ummmummummm. Dessert...a plate full of different kinds and a selection of dessert liquors. I picked the brown one from Extremadura, which is Paz´s home province. I didn´t know what it was made of, I didn´t understand the words she was telling me, except that it´s from the stuff that pigs eat. Now, in the US pigs eat just about everything, right? No, apparently spanish pigs eat acorns. That´s it. So it was a sweet, light acorn licour. Delicious.
The last couple days I´ve slept until noon. all this Spanish makes me very tired. Jason sleeps until I wake him up, so not sure what his excuse is.
OK, gotta go. The Cathedral is calling. They will scalp me if I don´t take him to see it.
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