After a day of wandering and grazing at
The Parador (three gourmet dinners, three times a day, free to the first 10 pilgrims to front up with a credencial) , I come to Santiago's showcase restaurant for the homeless,
The Econo Kitchen, where traditional Galician foods are presented with a kindly, compassionate touch. Just a few steps from the main cathedral –up the hill and around the corner,
The Econo Kitchen is the city's only restaurant blessed by Lovingkindness and all the Saints and angels in Heaven. In an unwashed atmosphere, my three-course dinner, (all for 80 cents plus extras), begins with spicy lentils and chorizo cooked into a hearty soup. The soup is made in a gigantic aluminium pot and ladled into sturdy railway station china, with fine white bread dunked into the soup at table….
Read more:
http://www.caritas-santiago.org/personas-sin-hogar/