Eating Iberico meat for the first time

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Weeks ago

Feels like ages ago already, simply because these weeks after our arrival in Spain have been hectic, moving around from A to B and buying a lot of items we need for our new home. Therefore a lot of my folders with pictures of food and tapas remained unused while I have SO many cool ones to share. It's just that my body is telling me to slow down for a bit longer because I'm still not fully recovered. The really cool stuff will have to wait a bit longer as I have to go through tons of pictures, meanwhile, I can share some other dinner moments that were memorable, like this one today.

We arrived at our second AirBnB

And it was tough let me tell you that. Where our first place had an elevator, I discovered that I somehow missed the "no elevator" comment for our second stay and noticed this the day before arrival. Yay! On top of this, we also had no parking space nearby so bringing our luggage to the front door while 30 degrees was no fun, and then we needed to go 2 floors up as well. You can imagine we were totally drained and hungry after that!

Exploring the area

Although exhausted, an evening walk on the boulevard, with a nice ocean breeze is always nice.

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I could not really walk far anymore as my body was already giving me signals to slow down after the heavy lifting (even though my poor boyfriend carried most upstairs). We bumped into a small restaurant where the owners were sitting outside, they welcomed us and it was mostly their friendly attitude that made me propose to sit there. No idea what they had on the card yet, but I just needed to sit lol. This started well with an ice-cold big bottle of water, which was super welcome. We sat down, discussed the day, and realized again, that we were very happy to be here. We knew one of the next days we were going to check out our possible new home, so the moods were good and positive.

Ordering food

I decided to play a bit safe and ordered a pork tenderloin from the grill, I love grilled meat and veggies. My boyfriend wanted lamb chops but they didn't have them, so the waiter proposed to try Iberico meat instead which he agreed to. We started with a shared salad and some homemade bread while our daughter wa waiting for her spaghetti carbonara to arrive.

The food

For starters:

Delicious homemade bread

Homemade aioli, so good!

Tuna salad, which was more lettuce than anything else, but it did the trick

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Iberico from the grill, sorry I don't remember which part of meat it was, lol

I thought it looked nasty and at first, didn't want to try it, I was happy eating my pork tenderloin with some homemade pepper sauce instead, but as my boyfriend said it was SO good, he insisted I tried it. He was right, it tasted 100x better than it looked.

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Pork tenderloin from the grill, which was actually amazingly good!

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Homemade french fries, yum!

Spaghetti carbonara for the little lady, not as good as how I make it was the verdict, as per usual, lol

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Homemade pepper sauce, so good!

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Topping off the meat with the sauce, and enjoy!

Conclusion

We were the only customers for several hours and it seemed that the pandemic had left its marks on their business as well. I was happy we could support some locals that served mostly homemade food which also tasted great. It was a nice evening out, not as expensive as I expected and we walked home all satisfied after some hours.

Eating Iberico meat for the first time - A great evening out!