San Miguel, otra vez!

My dad arrived in Madrid on Friday and of course we had to make a trip to the Mercado San Miguel! We wandered around Puerta del Sol for the most part of Saturday, just browsing through the shops and taking pictures at the palace and other sites of Madrid.

Dad in front of Mercado San Miguel

caprese pincho/tandoori chicken pincho

 Then I took dad for cañas and tapas (and Sangria) in Plaza Mayor and we people-watched for hours.

Mozzarella bar

 FINALLY, we made it to Mercado San Miguel and dad and I were like 2 children in a candy store! We bought a glass of wine each, and just wandered from booth to booth, stall to stall, and bar to bar sampling random pinchos and bites of nearly everything they had.

curry sausage w/ spicy tomato sauce; cheese sausage with aioli sauce

 We had salchichas (sausages) with different sauces, mozzarella salad, goat cheese and caramelized onion bites, caprese skewers, tandoori chicken skewers, and finally bites of turrón to wash it all down.

Dad's first Churros con Chocolate experience!

We then wandered around Madrid a bit more (to let our food digest -- and to make room for more food!) and then we slowly made our way to San Ginés, where we split an order of churros con chocolate. The churros at San Ginés are to die for, mostly because they use such rich dark chocolate as the dipping sauce. You can definitely say we ate our way through Madrid that day!