Showing posts with label Madrid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madrid. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2008

Fabrica de la Yaya





What can I say about Fabrica... fabs if you will. This place has been my second home since we arrived. We couldn't have been luckier because its only a block away and you can see it from my room.  The bar features 5 tables each equipped with their own tap. You pour as much as you want and the amount you drink is recorded on a flat screen by liter, and it even keeps track of which table is in first.  
Not to mention you get free fries every 5 liters, *clutch*.  We're part of the family down there now and good friends with the bartenders, who own the place, Ignacio (aka Nacho) and Enrique, as well as our lovable server Yolanda. Fabrica will be missed dearly when I leave.
 Note the old spaniard rockin out with the mic stand guitar.

This is our post fabrica haunt, Disco Pub.  This obscure hole in the wall bar is a local karaoke hotspot for the elderly madrileño crowd and also happens to be near a block from my house.  When fabs closes up shop we often find ourselves rubbin elbows with old-folk and jamming out to some righteous tunes.  A great place for cougar hunting i must say.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Jimmy Came to Madrid

Sunset over the gardens in Parque Retiro

Well its not quite the ocean, but its still pretty nice to look at.



The sanctuary.