Have you heard of the Menu del Dia?
So Menu del Dia is a thing in Spain for when everyone is having their large meal at lunch time during Monday to Friday. It's a set price menu from about 12.30pm to 4pm and it generally consists of a starter, main and dessert along with a fizzy drink or an alcoholic drink like a beer or wine.
In Malaga the menu del dia cost was generally about €11 or €12 while in Madrid it is about €13-15 or so.... there are more expensive ones in high end restaurants, and then there are also cheaper menu del dias in local restaurants.
Yesterday we visited Mexkhal Cantina near Estrecho on line 1 for their menu del dia.
For €13.50 each we got all of this food, plus a coke zero and also a dessert which was either a slice of cheesecake or chocolate cake.
All really tasty and ultimately a very cost effective way of eating out!
And so having not had a menu del dia the entire time we were in both Malaga and Madrid, we then ended up having 2 within two days.
It just so happened that we had arranged to meet for lunch today with the director of the art residency that PIGSY is currently in Madrid doing (last day is tomorrow) and we went fot the most amazing menu del dia today in a Japanese sushi restaurant called Matcha. OMG, it was incredible!! And actually consisted of 2 starter courses (one of which was 12 shi sushi) and a main plus a dessert.
I'm so glad that we did not know about it earlier as we would be hard pressed not to go there every day!!!
