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Wow! Those seconds look good. Thanks for the tip. Planning on staying a couple nights in Burgos. Will definitely check this place out and at 14 euro, what a deal. Thanks!!Here is an especially good example from January this year. From the extraordinary dining room of the Circulo de la Unión in Burgos. On the Paseo del Espolón near the cathedral. A private club but the dining room is open to the public for lunch. Included a full bottle of wine.
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You’ll need a couple of nights and more, to enjoy Burgos. Great place. Buen CaminoWow! Those seconds look good. Thanks for the tip. Planning on staying a couple nights in Burgos. Will definitely check this place out and at 14 euro, what a deal. Thanks!!
That is an amazing menu for pilgrims!Here is an especially good example from January this year. From the extraordinary dining room of the Circulo de la Unión in Burgos. On the Paseo del Espolón near the cathedral. A private club but the dining room is open to the public for lunch. Included a full bottle of wine.
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The food was good!Here is an especially good example from January this year. From the extraordinary dining room of the Circulo de la Unión in Burgos. On the Paseo del Espolón near the cathedral. A private club but the dining room is open to the public for lunch. Included a full bottle of wine.
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"Patatas con ... ..." looks mysterious.Here is an especially good example from January this year. From the extraordinary dining room of the Circulo de la Unión in Burgos. On the Paseo del Espolón near the cathedral. A private club but the dining room is open to the public for lunch. Included a full bottle of wine.
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Yes, I believe Franco required all restaurants to offer a menu del dia at a specific price that workers could afford. It’s not required anymore but still very popular. My friend who lives in Madrid often uses it as a way to try out fancy restaurants. So it is in the restaurant’s best interest to make it delicious and good value.The history of the Menu del Dia has an interesting origin from the days of Franco's rule. In most towns today, it is the midday staple. Usually it is comprised of one main course cooked especially for that day, other main dishes are also available and all include salad, vegetable/potatoes, wine and dessert. The chef then has a chance to do a large roast for instance which everyone in town shares. This daily tradition does not exist in Portugal but mid afternoon lunches at most restaurants follow similar sort of daily menu with one fish and one carne specialty of the day.
The salad is ordered separately from the main course, ensalada mixta. The mains tend not to come with salad. I would often order two starters instead of a main.I think I must have done something wrong. I came home from Spain desperate for vegetables.I think, in three weeks on the VDLP I only got salad with my menu del dia on three occasions. There were never any vegetables offered except patatas which without exception were french fries (chips to us Englanders.). This was a wonder to me, because the tiendas and supermercados had loads of vegetables, so why none in the bars/restaurants.
Menu del dia was started in 1965 ss a touristic menu by minister Fraga who in 1993 as president of Xunta de Galicia relaunched de Camino de Santiago. Also he changed the Galician names into Galician version ( O Cebreiro/ El Cebrero, etc).Yes, I believe Franco required all restaurants to offer a menu del dia at a specific price that workers could afford. It’s not required anymore but still very popular. My friend who lives in Madrid often uses it as a way to try out fancy restaurants. So it is in the restaurant’s best interest to make it delicious and good value.
I would suggest eating one or two every week, and making sure each one is as inexpensive as possible. Make sure the bottle of tinto is included, though that mostly stops working once you reach Galicia.I’ve always kept my Camino meals at a minimum (supermarket mostly) with only experiencing a few Pilgrims Menus total on three Camino’s. I’m not a fan of the Pilgrims Menu. I see the Menu del dia mentioned a lot on this forum. I’m curious what kind of foods could I expect to eat when ordering from this menu, cost?On the Frances.
Although the practice is dying out, in some places the pilgrim menu is still just the menu del día plus an extra couple of Euros, and occasionally a glass of wine rather than a bottle, despite the extra price.As stated in the posts above, Menù del Dìa can be almost anything and usually quite good.
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