They start with a good influx of diners, eager to taste typical cuisine again without the restrictions of last year
It was when the Patron Saint arrived at the Cathedral and began to descend a river of people that flowed into the Malecón, in search of a refreshment point in one of the newly opened fourteen Orchards. “If you’re not ready and you arrive early, you won’t catch a hole,” commented Pascual, already equipped at his table in the Vega del Segura tavern with almost the entire family. There was a desire for the Fair and the large landscape of heads that populated the garden after 9 at night attested to this. “I haven’t been here since 2018, because in 2019 DANA screwed up my plan and last year, with the reservation system implemented by the pandemic, I didn’t take a seat,” explained María José, with a beer in her hand and with the certainty that that a montadito and a zarangollo, or you eat it here or you don’t eat it at home. “I’m making my debut this year and it’s not bad at all,” Alfonso, a native of Cartagena, explained next to her.
Black pudding 2.0 is what was served in some Orchards, such as Alcantarilla, which has taken advantage of the return of an unrestricted Fair to modernize the service, but maintaining, as it should, the usual dishes. In this way, the orders taken by the waiters go directly through printers installed at the foot of the kitchen. «It is the first year and something will fail; I’m sure we’ll pay for the duck,” Ginés Sáez, treasurer of El Barracón, a huertana club, noted humorously, aware that this traditional gastronomic proposal is in a time of change, and not only because of the use of technology.
“We have the feeling that this may be one of the last years on the Malecón, since everything that comes to us is that we are going to be taken out of here to a future fairground, Andalusian,” said Sáez, with more of three decades of service in the Fair behind him. Be that as it may, the Orchards and the adjacent tasting areas have at least another eleven nights left to operate under the shelter of the trees of the emblematic garden.
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