DOH!!! A correction is in order

A few days back we had lunch at La Cuadrilla (Thanksgiving day) and I talked about our hosts.  I identified the owner and chef as Pablo;  well as my bad luck would have it his name is Pedro.  When we went in for lunch today he mentioned it, so I want to set the record straight,  it´s Pedro and his wife is still Mercedes luckily I got that right otherwise I´d have a third woman to be afraid of here (a joke).

So today, we had reservations for lunch at 3:00 pm and when we got there we had a little discussion which basically came down to us asking him to serve us a meal as determined by the chef.   WOW!   We started out with an appetiser of croquettes, two each of ham, goat cheese, mushroom, and apple, and in one moment it completely changed Deb´s attitude towards Spanish croquettes, up til now they have been pretty much a bunch of tasteless goo, but today each one had a distinct flavor and the becamel sauce was exactly matched to the fillings.   Next we had a plate of Seta mushrooms sauteed in olive oil with spinach which was just delectible.  BUT WAIT! It gets better, our next plate was several medallions of wild boar with a mild but perfectly matched cheese sauce, the boar was cooked to a perfect pink so that it was moist but not chewey.   The next course was venison in a red fruit sauce, it had red current, raspberry, and black current cooked together in a non-sweet ambrosia ladled over venison that again was cooked just to the pink stage and was heavenly.   We paired it with a 2001 Rioja reserva wine that started out somewhat austerely but opened up perfectly with the meal.  This was without doubt the best meal we have had in Spain, and it rivals great meals we have had anywhere.  If you have Madrid in your travel plans email me and I´ll give you directions to this restaurant, you won´t be disappointed.