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Yes. Highly recommended. I discovered it while working at the Pilgrim Office and became a regular. Mid day hours and closed weekends. But HOW I hated that HILL.Round the corner from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked up the path about 30m, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
Walked by last year, but didn't realise that it is accessible for everyone.Round the corner from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked up the path about 30m, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
I have to say I agree, that title is somewhat confusing. Especially as I don't actually consider cafeteria food to be 'real' food, no matter how reasonably priced it is!I truly appreciate the information that the university of Santiago offers good food for a good price to anyone including pilgrims. As I said in my first reply (which was deleted by the moderators...), thanks for that.
I'll probably check that cafeteria out the next time I'm in Santiago! It's great information.
But, honestly...
Santiago hasn't had a shortage of "real food" so far, I'd think?
Or is there no "real food" before Santiago?
Why that title?
Wouldn't "Medical faculty of Santiago university has a great cafeteria, good food for small price, pilgrims welcome!" or something like that be more precise and more useful?
Maybe someone can explain to me, as apparently I don't understand
Anyway, thanks for the information!
Well, you've convinced me - this, I have to try.But the chef of this "cafeteria" is clearly destined for greater things, possibly an even better cafeteria?
Ah mate, a good joke is never waisteddraping sartorial British wit
Not much comment, except to say that in all honesty your description of what you had makes it certain I won't go there.But I look forward to those tuna balls on my next visit.
For wit to be sartorial and British is it just draped in the flag or is it required to deliver it while wearing a bowler and a three piece pinstripe suit?Ah mate, a good joke is never waisted
If God intended us to eat fish, he wouldn't have thrown them in the sea.Not good food, great food. The tuna balls melted in the mouth.
This leaves me very confused. I must have missed something. At what moment in evolution did tuna fish grow balls?Not good food, great food. The tuna balls melted in the mouth.
Shortly before they started to have fingers?At what point in evolution did tuna fish develop balls?
So his son could go fishing of course...If God intended us to eat fish, he wouldn't have thrown them in the sea.
I suspect they likely meant fried, breaded balls of tuna blended with break crumbs - like a croquette.I think I’d regard “cojones de atun” with some suspicion even given my eclectic approach to what’s edible
I suspect, without any opportunity for personal research before late September, that there’ll be stuff on the menu you could enjoy @VNwalking but I’ll let you know thereafter
While we were working in the Pilgrims office we ate there a few times. Basic cafeteria style food but can’t beat the price. Also very friendly and accommodating staffRound the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
I think they called "Albóndigas de Atún" or in English "Tuna Meatballs"But I look forward to those tuna balls
Obviously you have never been in New York in bygone days and eaten at Horn and Hardart's.I have to say I agree, that title is somewhat confusing. Especially as I don't actually consider cafeteria food to be 'real' food, no matter how reasonably priced it is!
This connects nicely to the famous W.C. Fields quote about why he never drinks water.If God intended us to eat fish, he wouldn't have thrown them in the sea.
Has anyone found any decent vegetarian food on the Camino other than those lettuce and tomato and onion salads ?I suspect they likely meant fried, breaded balls of tuna blended with break crumbs - like a croquette.
Besides, fish do not have "balls" in the "cojones" context. So, there must, logically, be another explanation.
This said, I am willing to be wrong.
Hope this helps,
Tom
Yes. It depends where you go and what you try to subsist on. Pilgrim's menus? Forget it. Iceberg lettuce and bad french fries, over and over. But I've had decent menus del dia, often by getting 2 first courses. More and more there are places that offer vegetarian alternatives to the usual fare.Has anyone found any decent vegetarian food on the Camino other than those lettuce and tomato and onion salads ?
On the subject of food. Very close to the Pilgrims office are the markets. At the market is a restaurant that opens in the evenings. It's mentioned in the Michelin Guide. They have a menu but will also bring you dishes they construct from the best ingredients of the day. They keep serving them until you ask them to stop. It's amazing. Quite expensive. Really beautiful plates of highly imaginative food. The perfect way to break from the usual.Round the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
Great reply. As a vegan it doesn't sould like there would be much or anything on the menu I could/would eat. Luckily, there are a few great vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Santiago I have yet to try out!If God intended us to eat fish, he wouldn't have thrown them in the sea.
Great reply. As a vegan it doesn't sould like there would be much or anything on the menu I could/would eat. Luckily, there are a few great vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Santiago I have yet to try out!
I'm not worried as I have stayed in Santiago 15+ times and I'm not a foodieThere are literally hundreds of places to eat in Santiago to cater for all tastes, good and bad. The university cafeteria is an ok place to eat. It's cheap (or good value, if you prefer the term) has had prompt service anytime I've been there, and it's away from the general throng, it certainly has that going for it. But honestly, I wouldn't plan a visit to Santiago around it.
Yes! Definitely, strangely, yes.I've also eaten very well at hospital cafeterias in France
Well University cafeterias abound throughout Europe. And over the years I often have availed myself of some decent tasty food. That said, when I look to “dine” on the CF, I have a few personal favorite Restaurants or albergues along the way, that cook excellent food and are well before entering SdC. However, you won’t get them as cheap as you will at a Uni, for sure.I have to say I agree, that title is somewhat confusing. Especially as I don't actually consider cafeteria food to be 'real' food, no matter how reasonably priced it is!
Closed Saturday and SundayRound the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
What is your definition of real food?. I have just moved to Santiago and I can contest that there are many restaurants in Santiago that have real food. I had no knowledge of this cafeteria but will try this upcoming week and see for myselfClosed Saturday and Sunday
Great tip!Round the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
I'm intrigued by this info, however having made numerous pilgrimages to Santiago I'm lost as to your directions. Round the corner and up the hill is basically what one does every 5 minutes in Santiago ( at least in my perspective ). If I am facing the door to the Pilgrim's office, what direction would I go to find the corner to round? Would you be sending me back up the hill towards the parador?Round the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
I'm intrigued by this info, however having made numerous pilgrimages to Santiago I'm lost as to your directions. Round the corner and up the hill is basically what one does every 5 minutes in Santiago ( at least in my perspective ). If I am facing the door to the Pilgrim's office, what direction would I go to find the corner to round? Would you be sending me back up the hill towards the parador?
I'm going to make the quest to find this in a few weeks!
Thanks for the recommendation and hopefully, the clarification of the directions
WOW!! Have walked this street several dozen times and have never noticed this cafeteria! Thank you
As you exit the Pilgrim Office, turn left. At the corner turn right and start up the STEEP hill leading to San Francisco Church. The driveway into the cafeteria building is near the top on the right. I am sending you a message regarding the “miracle” topic.I'm intrigued by this info, however having made numerous pilgrimages to Santiago I'm lost as to your directions. Round the corner and up the hill is basically what one does every 5 minutes in Santiago ( at least in my perspective ). If I am facing the door to the Pilgrim's office, what direction would I go to find the corner to round? Would you be sending me back up the hill towards the parador?
I'm going to make the quest to find this in a few weeks!
Thanks for the recommendation and hopefully, the clarification of the directions
Joking aside, what word DO the Spanish use when forming food into an approximation of a sphere? In seventeen months in Spain and several in Mexico and Perú, I’ve never heard “pelota” used in a culinary context.Besides, fish do not have "balls" in the "cojones" context. So, there must, logically, be another explanation.
I ate there once and never went back as the food was dreadful some years ago - might give it a try again to see if it really has improved.Round the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
That would be Abesto 2.0 and LumeOn the subject of food. Very close to the Pilgrims office are the markets. At the market is a restaurant that opens in the evenings. It's mentioned in the Michelin Guide. They have a menu but will also bring you dishes they construct from the best ingredients of the day. They keep serving them until you ask them to stop. It's amazing. Quite expensive. Really beautiful plates of highly imaginative food. The perfect way to break from the usual.
Yes, I've been there many times over the years. Very pleasant staff when I've been there.Round the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main road in Spanish that says, 'follow the path' - you would be hard pressed to notice the blackboard or the place itself from just general wanderings.
But once you've walked 30m up the path, past the car barrier, there is a massive cafeteria with an inside and outside seating area. They are very welcoming and helpful to tourists. There's a set 3 course menu with loads of choice for €8.50 (water free but fizzy drinks extra) and the food variety & quality is absolutely superb!!
Recommended!
Don’t forget the brolly!For wit to be sartorial and British is it just draped in the flag or is it required to deliver it while wearing a bowler and a three piece pinstripe suit?
Meatball is also ‘albondiga’.
Actually, you might be more likely to find vegetarian and even vegan food in a college/university cafeteria than in a restaurant "out in the open," in Iberia.Great reply. As a vegan it doesn't sould like there would be much or anything on the menu I could/would eat. Luckily, there are a few great vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Santiago I have yet to try out!
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