You can definitely get a 3 course lunch for €8, which is less than £8. Not in highly touristic places or in the center of Madrid or Barcelona, but I live in a 2

You can definitely get a 3 course lunch for €8, which is less than £8. Not in highly touristic places or in the center of Madrid or Barcelona, but I live in a 250K city and there are many places offering simple 3-course meals (salad or entrée + fish or meat + dessert) with that price. And if you go to €9 you can get fancy meals and all. The beer analogy may have been misleading, though. You can indeed get 4 beers for €8, but the standard size of a beer here is 300 ml, which is much less than a pint (568 ml I think).