Thanksgiving week

Of course we don't have Thanksgiving here in Spain and almost never see turkey- but never fear - we won't go hungry. Tried a new place for dinner Sunday night. It was definitely a place to return. An excellent menu with many choices. Including veggies! IMO the ladies next to us ordered better but there's always next time. We opted for the white asparagus over the zucchini - theirs looked better. Live and learn. Menu items marked.  Service was outstanding! And the ambience was warm and welcoming.

Then Monday night another new restaurant, El Pinton... while not perfect it was very good and we will definitely return! 

OMG! A real REAL salad. Great big salad with spinach, frisée lettuce, strawberries, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, feta, walnuts, figs, pea tendrils. Just fabulous!

Phil started with the jamon - big surprise!

Then he had the costilla of black angus braised - 

and I ordered the brussels sprouts which were inedible - not cooked nearly enough!  I couldn't cut them with the steak knife they gave me for our shared meat course... but no worries - there was a MITO on the way home LOL

There are several levels of restaurants here in the same building - I think the menu of the tapas style - less high end part of the facility looks good enough to check out ....

so tomorrow is class night and we will be eating at home, but back out on Wednesday to Petit Comité 

Phil had his foie and duck starter and I had the mushroom carpaccio. He had steak and I had the orzo dish. We had chocolate coulant and semifrió for dessert. Always good and good service as well.

Holiday lights in our building are up and lit! We had our Thanksgiving dinner at AMARA and the chef made us a little dessert of roasted pumpkin with a custard topping and some crumbles. It was perfect because in the grand tradition of Thanksgiving - we overate and were already stuffed. We had to bring home leftovers. No turkey but we did have both pork and beef and chestnut soup! (Along with the pumpkin.)

Our final dinner out for Thanksgiving week was to MING2 for Chinese. Chongqing dry chile beef for me. Cumin lamb for P. I had hot & south soup and he had the wonton. We shared the MING fried rice and an app of gyozas (not pictured.). When we came home we snuck in carefully so as to not trigger the lights under the colonnade and I could snap a photo of our courtyard. Today we went out for coffee and found the oranges getting more and more orange, as well as an elf ready for posing with kids in front of the toy store. Holidays are coming. The official lighting of the holiday lights is tomorrow. Planning for big crowds starting tomorrow, through Three Kings Day. #sevillaholidays

off to Paris tomorrow.