There is two places where you can get free meals from Social Security Agency each promising you only three meals for you passport and then you will need Social Worker letter or for more permanent needs they have issued cards called “tarjetas”.
One of them is in Aveniuda Parallel 97 (Metro Poble Sec) called “comedor Paralelo” and another in Aveniuda Meridiana 238/240 (Metro Navas) called “comedor Navas”.
You will get a salad or soup, meal, little bit bread, yogurt or cake between 12.30 and 14.00 but the portions are so small that I wondered did I just had a lunch or I’m I going to get lunch. Even bread is limited. The first salad or soup is somehow bigger but the actual meal is so small that I would call just a snack.
“Comedor Meridiana” somehow loved to serve one small chicken leg with handful pieces of chips to be your daily meal.
You can get better meal as dinner from restaurant La Terraseta between 17.30 and 20.00 which works on same limit as “Comedor Parallelo”. But as its situating upper part of the city near metro Joanic, it’s at least two hour walk from the city centre. The full address is Calle Fraternitat 40 but its so small street so you should find Travessera de Garcia, then in the cross of Torre de Olla is small Biblioteca which has been closed most of the times I have tried to enter, so walk to north little bit when the market starts and turn down from there to find it. Exactly 17.30 is becoming line of drunken persons showing their “tarjeta”Žs to come in and if lucky, you will get the number, wait in the terrace and have your meal there.
There is another place nearby where you can get coffee and wieners on Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9AM to 11AM called “Centre YaYa Lluisa”. It’s situated in the Placa de Raspal numero 1 and has some social help available for local persons having “tajetas”.
My next entry will be where you really get some food by believing to God.