David posted the main blog today, but I wanted to talk a little about our dinner tonight. There’s a little place right up Calle Lope de Vega from us called TerraMundi. It’s a Gallego themed restaurant/bar that has a day and a night menu. two course meal with wine and dessert for 10,50. Did I mention that it is Gallego? Cause I swear, it’s some of the best food in Spain. We got crema fria de calabaza and a torta pasculina de espinacas for the starters, which were extremely delicious. Then for the main, I had ordered pulpo a la plancha and ribs. Well, when david heard me say that they had octopus as a main, he said, oh, yeah, squid… and I corrected him, no, octopus. However the correction hadn’t soaked in. So he was expecting calamari for one of the plates, when in fact what we got was two octopus tentacles with some potatoes on the side. 

apparently David has never eaten octopus before. He was intimidated by the suckers, and as he ate it he looked like he feared it might rise up off the plate and grab him. He reported, however, that it tasted good and he in fact liked it. So that was good. He also got to try torta de Santiago for the first time. 

The menu included a half a bottle of wine per person, so the waitress came up and gave us a bottle each and said “el menu incluye mitad de botella, vale.” to which I responded “Vale” and we drank or vino gallego. Which was exquisite. David had a red wine and I had a rose wine.  Now we’re back at the hotel, and they left us a gift bottle of wine as a (slightly late, but who’s counting) welcome gift. It’s a tinto from rioja. It’s 14.5% alcohol. We’re deciding if tonight’s the night…