[Gocamino] FW: Non Spanish Restaurants

[Glenn Jilek]

Rebekah asked me to forward this because of computer problems....

 

Glenn
 
> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:36:16 -0700
> From: rebrites at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Non Spanish Restaurants
> To: guha2005 at hotmail.com
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> Dear Glenn
> I ate at an Indian restaurant in Pamplona, on the road out of town near the university hospital. It wasn´t GREAT Indian, but hey...you eat it when you find it around here! 
> 
> The same with Chinese restaurants. (and doner kebab places.)They´re popping up even smaller towns now, and there are usually two or three in a good-size city like Burgos or Leon. When we´re in Leon we usually go to the wonderfully named "Casa Rong." It is just uphill from the Corte Ingles store. Again, not GREAT Chinese, but really quite okay. (I always love saying hello to Mister Rong!) 
> 
> There´s a Greek place in Leon, too, near San Marcos. I can´t remember the name of the street, but I think the restaurant is called Sabor de Grecia. Nice grape leaves. 
> 
> For Italian you can go to Boccalino in Plaza San Isidore. Good menu del dia there, and a reasonable wine list... very good walnut sauce and squid-ink pasta. there´s another Italian place in the Casco Antiguo but it´s pretty expensive. 
> 
> There is also a pretty darn good local pizza chain in Leon, called La Competencia -- they have two shops right in the Barrio Humedo, near the Sisters´ albergue. 
> 
> ...then there´s McDonald´s, and Burger King. You can usually find these in the big Carrefour or LeClerc shopping-mall kinds of places on the outskirts of the big cities. 
> 
> As for Burgos, when we go over there we usually go to the Vinoteca just down the little street from Casa de Cordon, very near the Buen Pastor refugio. It´s Spanish food, but with a nouvelle cuisine approach. Excellent goat-cheese salads and morcilla, and great wine list. When in Burgos, eat Morcilla and grilled setas! YUM! 
> 
> I like food. Can you tell?
> 
> Rebekah Scott 
> www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com
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> "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." 
> - David Foster Wallace
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> --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Glenn Jilek <guha2005 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: Glenn Jilek <guha2005 at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [Gocamino] Non Spanish Restaurants
> > To: "Ultreya" <ultreya at yahoogroups.com>, gocamino at oakapple.net
> > Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 4:41 PM
> > 
> > Mention of a Thai restaurant in Madrid, makes me think of
> > the Vietnamese place I ate at in San Sebastian.  I took
> > the slooooooow narrow gage train across Northern Spain back
> > to Biarritz and stopped in San Sebastian.  The food at
> > the Viet restaurant was great.
> > 
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> > 
> > I wonder if other pilgrims have eaten at non Spanish
> > restaurants during their time in Spain and could offer some
> > recommendations?
> > 
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> > 
> > Glenn
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