A Wonderful Alternative

[scruffy1]

By the time one reaches Leon, by the time I reach Leon, I'm thinking - one more pilgrims menu another menu el dia and I will lay down on the floor and die of boredom! In Leon there is an alternative, a wonderful alternative. Walking on the Camino towards Gaudi on the bench, Calle Rua, about 150 meters before is Calle Conder Rebolledo marked by one of those shops which sell hams and chorizos and weird sausages and bolitos. Turn right and walk
50 meters to number17 Pizzeria La Competencia! And!! A Spanish cafe bar which gives a small slice of pizza as tapas with an order of beer or wine a-n-d offers the best thin crust pizza west of Napoli! Two pilgrims two fantastic pizzas half a liter of wine for less then a pilgrims menu! The atmosphere? Men downstairs watching football women and kids upstairs chomping pizza the waiters trying their best not to stomp on the children as both run back and forth - Napoli! A fantastic evening!

 

[Kanga]

@Rebekah Scott you just called for pizza. Tried this?

 

[Rebekah Scott]

Hear, hear Scruffy. Pizzeria La Competencia is a big favorite of ours; they're in Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, and Ponferrada, too! You gotta try the Berguidium pizza... it's got pine nuts, raisins, and morcilla on it!
I think it's some of the best in this part of Spain. But it's not exactly the pizza I long for... I am American, after all. And US pizza is one of the few things I miss from home!

 

[scruffy1]

Hear, hear Scruffy. Pizzeria La Competencia is a big favorite of ours; they're in Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, and Ponferrada, too! You gotta try the Berguidium pizza... it's got pine nuts, raisins, and morcilla on it!
I think it's some of the best in this part of Spain. But it's not exactly the pizza I long for... I am American, after all. And US pizza is one of the few things I miss from home!

Glad to know however two things Spanish I cannot face are morcilla something about the blood I suppose and gallos that is tripe . Loved by millions both but I just can't, strangely. Bolito I can handle there is asimilar Portuguese and Jewish concoction but no tripe please

 

[Castilian]

gallos that is tripe

Sometimes a letter matter.
Gallos=roosters.
Callos=tripes.

 

[scruffy1]

Sometimes a letter matter.
Gallos=roosters.
Callos=tripes.

Absolutely correct my cellophane keeps "fixing" almost everything I write spanish English and Hebrew I'm desperate !

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Hear, hear Scruffy. Pizzeria La Competencia is a big favorite of ours; they're in Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, and Ponferrada, too! You gotta try the Berguidium pizza... it's got pine nuts, raisins, and morcilla on it!
I think it's some of the best in this part of Spain. But it's not exactly the pizza I long for... I am American, after all. And US pizza is one of the few things I miss from home!

Oh oh.... Me thinks that we may soon make pressures on you to develop a guide of good eats alomg the way! And not Michelin eats, just good ones

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Absolutely correct my cellophane keeps "fixing" almost everything I write spanish English and Hebrew I'm desperate !

It clearly does as it refers to itself as a cellophane . My ?$@! tablet cannot manage French, English and Spanish, such a pain. How difficult can ot be to detect language used?

 

[PEI_Heather]

Hmmm...it sounds like there is at least one thing in Leon you will now visit for, Scruffy1!

Mmmmm....pizza!

 

[tyrrek]

I'll look out for this place next month. I love pizza, even those rectangular Cruji ones with the hammer-shaped cutter.

 

[peregrina2000]

@Rebekah Scott you just called for pizza. Tried this?

Don't want to brag, but I ate pizza here with the lovely Reb and Paddy years ago when the word had not yet gotten out.

Hear, hear Scruffy. Pizzeria La Competencia is a big favorite of ours; they're in Burgos, Leon, Oviedo, and Ponferrada, too! You gotta try the Berguidium pizza... it's got pine nuts, raisins, and morcilla on it!
I think it's some of the best in this part of Spain. But it's not exactly the pizza I long for... I am American, after all. And US pizza is one of the few things I miss from home!

How about good Mexican food? Should we let the forum know about the Mexican restaurant on the square in Ponferrada? Have you found anything better yet?

 

[AJ]

...and Italian in SdC...

 

[Castilian]

my cellophane keeps "fixing" almost everything I write spanish English

It sounds familiar to me and, yes, it can be an absolute nightmare.

 

[obinjatoo]

We just made the best sandwiches with various local dried meats, cheeses, tuna, pate, cucumbers, tomatoes and Jordy (bless his huge Dutch heart) added canned corn. Sometimes there were things pickled, sometimes boiled eggs. And there was almost ALWAYS a really good loaf of bread. I walked over 50 days last year and never once ate a Pilgrim menu or menu del dia or whatever it was. My colon thanked me most graciously.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

There's another very good pizza place now in CARRION de los CONDES, called simply "Pizza Italiano." It's in a bar next door to the Chino store, at the top of the main pedestrian street on the way out of town. The oven isn't fired-up until 8 p.m., but once the fire is burning, the pies are really fine, (none of that frozen nonsense) and generous!