On the way to the Museo Arqueológico, I stopped at a bakery to start off the day with a “sugar palm”.
I had lunch at the restaurant at the Thyssen Museum. Specifically, I had Beef entrecote “Sierra de Guadarrama” with new potatoes and green peppers. It looked so good, or I was so hungry, or both, I dug in and forgot to take a picture. I’m sure I can tell you it looked delicious. I’m assuming that “Sierra de Guadarrama” refers to cattle grown in the mountains northeast of Madrid, seen from El Escorial on Day 7.
One curious thing though. The Spanish name on menu for the dish began, “Entrecot de ternera...” “Ternera” translates as “veal”. Yet the English description has “beef”. I’m pretty sure I had beef. And when I’m looking online, I’m almost seeing that “ternera” is used for meat from cattle in general. And then there was my lunch on Day 10 when I was expecting veal but got a huge cut of beef (I think). Anyway, I enjoyed my lunch at the museum.
On the recommendation of a friend, I stopped at a bakery called on Motteau on an ancient narrow street in Letras. I got the iced lemon loaf. But everything looked so mouth-watering. It was probably the least decadent thing there!
I got an early evening snack at La Cúpula in the Palace Hotel. Time to load up on croquettes! After all, it had been 2 whole days since I had gotten some. Did I get the Iberian ham croquettes? Did I get the cod croquettes? Why not both?! I love that you can see the stained glass of the dome (the titular cúpula) reflected on the table.
At this point, there were 3 more days left to my trip. So the big question was, how many more times would I get croquettes before packing my bags?
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