EATING in Spain definitely spells F-U-N. You can eat at the hotel where you are billeted or if you want to save and have some adventure, then eat at street corner eateries. Or you can stroll around all the nudist beaches that you want and you can double your sightseeing with eating. Just be sure not to leave any trash around or else the police will arrest you not for staring at skinny dippers but for leaving your rubbish behind.Spanish cuisine is a combination of Mediterranean seafood blended with halal like lamb kebabs in ode to its Moorish roots. It also home of a unique Spanish specialty and mostly beef-based appetizer which has since been replicated in its former colonies around the world like the Philippines, the tapas. It likewise has the finest wine in all of western and northern Europe with quite a number of wine bodegas located in Jerez.

Spanish cuisine uses olive oil lots of times in sautéing their food. Other unique components of a typical Spanish dish are the use of garlic and onions as seasonings. The following are an extensive if not complete list of native Spanish dishes: tortilla, paella, embutidos, chorizo and jamon.

Because of its rich Moorish and Catholic history, Spain has not yet been westernized so to speak. Here you find a country with towering skyscrapers and even partygoers gyrating to the latest techno beat but even in the most urban areas, you rarely find a McDonald’s. Once you encounter one, you’ll see that the McDonald’s menu is embedded with native food like beer, salads and pizza. Italian foods like pizza and tiramisu have likewise slowly invaded Spain.

In Valencia alone, there are about more than ten Italian restaurants and all of them offer authentic Italian food cooked precisely the Italian way. Each of the restaurants employs really Italian chefs so you can be sure what you’ve tasted is really authentic.

Al Pomodoro is one of those restaurants. It is owned by the same family which is managing the Home chain of hostels. Al Pomodoro is one of the trendy hangouts of the yuppie and the teenage crowds who are into pasta and pizza. It serves around ten different variants of pasta and 30 pizza flavors. But if you want to taste more varied pasta, then go to Al Pomodoro’s sister restaurant, La Parppardella.

Now that you know where to find good food in Spain, know its dining etiquettes too. People here do not eat like they do in the US so beware of the norms here. Breakfast here is not a complete course of bagels and coffee but merely nibbling biscuits or what-have-you. Contrary to other Western countries where lunch is usually served at noon, the Spanish’s is eaten at about 2 p.m. already. It consist of soup, the main course which is usually seafood and capped with a dessert. The main course is accompanied with bread and sherry. So wherever you may go in Spain, you’ll never get starved. Eat to your heart’s content.