Just moved to Madrid and need to find a good local restaurant?
You’ve managed to buy that dream house in one of the Spanish South resort towns, all seems to be ready to enjoy a new lifestyle but still you cannot be 100% relaxed. After a hard day of work in the garden, you feel that exhausted that you can harly pick up your food to order a takeaway.. You look at those takeaway leaflets on the floor but you are not sure if that is the good quality food you want to reward yourself with. Your language skills confine you but you don’t want to order again from those touristy takeaways that none of the locals would ever try, you deserve something more. You try in Google using plain english but the results you get make you wonder whether you are doing something wrong or not.
The key phrases are ‘comida a domicilio‘ and ‘comidas para llevar‘. There is even a ‘takeaway finder‘ that you just have to type the city where you live and that will list all the available options with a lot of useful information such as ‘type of food’, whether it is open, whether there is a delivery service etc. but what is really useful is finding out about the opening times and how to get there. A great capability is that you can choose that cuisine you prefer e.g. Chinese and within a few seconds you can choose your favourite Chinese plate.
What you hate the most though, is that your girlfriend/boyfriend love Chinese food and you want to make surprise them but how?. You are definitely not in the mood ending up in the main square where all those bloody tourists go. It’s not true that all nice things in life take time, especially if you have a bit of time to look at what other people suggest. Living in a new city is great feeling but finding the right places for lunch or dinner, especially if you don’t know anyone around, can be a a bit of mission impossible. Let the tourists be, you are not a turist anymore.!