Finding Local Food Spots

Friday, June 9, 2017--Granada, Spain

We planned too many days in Granada.  We really had nothing special that we wanted to do today, so we backtracked to a couple of places we had seen yesterday.

First, after spending most of the morning in the apartment, we went to Jorge's Churros.  It is a small place that had a line of people waiting yesterday.  The owner makes hot chocolate using an expresso machine--a THICK, dark chocolate.  And he has a machine that pumps a long strand of churros into a pot of hot oil.  He uses long stainless steel sticks to stir and form the churros into a a spiral.  When they are done, he cuts them into long pieces.  We had a huge spiral of churro pieces which we dipped into our hot chocolate and ate.  UMMM.

From there, we went to a small place operated by a local woman who makes all the food there and packages it to go.  We got an order of chicken paella, an order of a smoky tasting vegetable dish that was tomatoes, eggplant, squash, and onions (very thick) with a fried egg on top, and an order of an empanada with tomatoes, onion, and smoked ham inside.  In the evening, we warmed them and had them with a good bottle of wine.  UMMM, again!  A surprise was that the other two dishes were more enjoyable than the paella.

In the evening, we took another stroll through Albaicin, the old quarter of town.  This time, we concentrated on going up and down the narrow residential streets.  It is an atmospheric area, but everyone there has so much climbing to do every time they come and go to/from their homes!!

Back in town, we made a stop at an exhibit of photographs by the American photographer Louis Faurer.  They were very interesting, and there were 150 photos on exhibit.  A couple of them would be perfect on the walls of my home!!