Monday June 15
We spent the day at the Reina Sofia Museum, seeing a lot of art (contemporary, political, surrealist, meaningless, breathtaking, and of course Guernica). We ate lunch at the cafe, where an "ensalado di pollo" meant the usual bowl of greens with some croutons and a few flecks of chicken, but the "baby hakes" platter turned out to be two small fish "en colère," biting their own tails.
Everything else was closed on Monday night, so we were FORCED to return and eat La Fabrica's really good food. Wine: Alberiño Fillaboa 2007, quite good but not as great as yesterday's. Zamburinas, smoked queen scallops (with their roe) in a red sauce, were good but much like smoked mussels; Ventresca (tuna belly) with pisto, a sort of puttanesca without pasta, or ratatouille with fish; and a sublime platter of pulpo a la Gallego, slices of meltingly tender octopus in oil and dusted with pimenton de la Vera, the best we've had since Fino in London.
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