Specialty: Octopus
Name: Pulpería A Garnacha
Address: Camiño Vello de Santiago, 2. Melide.
Province: A Coruña
Phone: 981507347
Website: www.pulperiaagarnacha.com
Delicious obligatory stop on your tour
At French way of Santiago we find one of the best grocery stores in Spain. Is there a reason not to stop? It's about the A Garnacha grocery store, in the population of Melide (A Coruna). They prepare grilled octopus and to feira of excellent quality at not exorbitant prices. The place is a spacious place and allows to host many pilgrims and others who go to the restaurant exclusively to eat a good octopus. But also all kinds of food Galician such as broth, ear, tortillas, empanadas, cachelos, etc.
About the octopus
El octopus is a cephalopod and octopod mollusk. It usually lives in depths of less than 200 meters, but there are species that live only ten meters deep. His eating it's based on Fish and crustaceans that you can swallow with a strong mouth. It is an intelligent animal with a certain memory, something that can be seen in its hunting strategy.
As the name suggests, octopod, they have eight arms, which have two rows of strong suction cups in each arm that help them in their hunting and movement. In the head they house the brain, highly developed eyes and three hearts. Their three hearts and their complete deafness they are curiosities of this animal. In the mantle of the body they have a bag of ink that they use for their defense.
This marine delicacy has been part of the diet of many cultures, especially the chinese and japanese (who eat it raw in the form of sushi). In Europe, both Greece, who cook it on the grill, and in Italy, Portugal and SpainIt is very popular and is cooked in different ways. One of them is the powder to fair, pure Galician tradition, which uses few ingredients: olive oil, sweet paprika, water and coarse salt.
Moreover, the octopus it is a food very nutritious, low in calories and contains vitamins and minerals that are very interesting for our body.
