Turkey for your salad days

by irenet - November 25, 2008

For an exchange student Spain or an expat, Thanksgiving can be a particularly hard day to be away from one’s family. You can sit at home pondering the political interpretations of The Wizard of Oz and chanting “There’s no place like home” or you can face the fact that you’re not in Kansas anymore (at least today).

In fact, if you’re in Madrid, there are a number of restaurants that serve special meals in case you’d like to observe Thanksgiving with friends this year.

US-inspired cuisine restaurants like La Gamella or the Southern-styled Gumbo typically draw crowds, so phone ahead to find out if they have any tables available. If you can’t make the dinner shift you might be able to have a late lunch. Other options are Cafe Panini‘s 22€ menu and Toma’s (45€ per feaster). As you can see the prices vary a bit too, so phoning ahead of time will also help you find who’s got the special that suits you best.

And while for the past couple of years only the Tony Roma’s on Genova street has a Thanksgiving menu, a few Irish pubs like O’Neill’s or The Dubliners are starting to offer them. Do you know of any other places for Thanksgiving? It’s a good time to share them

ASCII art by Joan Stark

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Mugshots

by irenet - November 4, 2008

It’s a mug! Now that it’s no longer a secret, we’re going to do a bit of show and tell regarding the little gift we sent out to ‘summer 2008′ participants.

If you missed out this time, you should know that exploring the services tagged as summer 2008, estiu 2008 or verano 2008 will give you an idea of what was hottest this summer with 11870.com people. If you do know what this is all about, then you should be receiving the mug in the mail soon. Please let us know if it didn’t get there in one piece, we know that a few didn’t make it…

When your mug arrives, you can share a picture of it in our Flickr pool.

Now about the mug. We’ve lovingly written your 11870.com moniker on it in permanent marker…  but it’s not really that permanent. After a couple of runs through the dishwasher your mug will still remind you of 11870.com,  but if you want it to say something else like “good morning” or “wake up and smell the coffee”, now is your chance!

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