Last weekend I went to the Mercado de San Miguel. It's basically in a giant glass warehouse (or something) with lots of different kinds of food to both be eaten there and taken home. In the center there are many booths and little seats for people to sit and enjoy their glass of wine and small pinchos.
Fish market!
Well hello there. I would like to eat you!
Also: beautiful produce.
And specialty pasta! (See the black spaghetti? Mmmm.)
But the best part about San Miguel is all the food that's just there, waiting to be eaten:
Pinchos...
Most of the time I don't know what I'm eating (I think that piece of fish was cod, possibly?), but it is all still delicious.
More fish. Caviar!
Cheese, of course. The one on the left is Manchego covered in paprika. Mmmm.
Oysters!
Yes, personal-sized bottles of champagne can be obtained at any of the like five wine stands in the market.
There was even salad! Although, because this is Spain after all, the salad part did come encased in carbs (that's a giant puffed out pita) and covered in, you guessed it, ham.
Proof that actual greenery was consumed.
What about dessert? Fruit and nuts? Looks delicious, but you want to know what's more delicious?
MINICAKES.
These cakes were not actually as delicious as they look. Too sugary, and one of them had marzipan in it.
I should have stuck with the fruit.
But also available at this chocolate shop was a giant bear made out of chocolate. This fact is probably not quite as funny to most of you as it is to me, because this entire city is obsessed with bears. They are everywhere. On banks, government signs, there is even a giant statue of one in Sol.
Proof.
So. The Mercado de San Miguel is a religious, delicious experience. Are you hungry yet? Because I am, and I just ate.
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