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I'm from the US, and currently vacationing in Spain. My wife and I typically only eat at restaurants once or twice per vacation, so we've got ample opportunity
by 13of40 10y ago
I'm from the US, and currently vacationing in Spain. My wife and I typically only eat at restaurants once or twice per vacation, so we've got ample opportunity to try local groceries. In my experience, the food here is superb. Some tomatoes we've bought are quite bland, but eggs are good. Preserved meats tend to be good (I mean tasty, maybe not good to eat all the time), and raw meats seem to be good quality and hygienically stored. I did find a decent, locally made IPA this morning for about $2.50 per 12 oz bottle at the Carrefour. My impression is that if you're a stranger to a place, it takes a while to find the good places to shop, because if you've only been there a week you might be trying to buy steak at the 7-Eleven.
- jfim 10y agoJust a heads up, Carrefour actually is a very large multinational hypermarket chain, not a local grocery. It's one of the top ten retailers, on roughly the same scale as Walmart and Costco. They just don't have a presence in North America. Mind you, the food they sell is still significantly better than an equivalent low cost grocery in the US.
- 13of40 10y agoI find it really odd that when comparing European and American grocery stores people somehow turn a blind eye to the "supermercat" places you can find about three to a block here, whose sole mission is to sell dusty canned goods and 90 degree wine to desperate people who can't find anything better.