{"id":10153,"date":"2025-10-24T22:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:40:37","slug":"el-chuleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/el-chuleton\/","title":{"rendered":"El Chuleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/elchuleton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10157\" \/>A chulet\u00f3n is a large ribeye steak with the bone still in. These steaks are massive\u2014over a kilo\u2014and meant to be shared. In Spain, going out for a chulet\u00f3n is much more than just dining out. It\u2019s a social event, something to enjoy together with friends. Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=9592&#038;lang=en\">beginning<\/a> of this year, &#8216;the guys&#8217;, Dani, Diego, and I have been going to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/iACqDEjUvXJQGMGj8\">El Chuleton<\/a> from time to time. We&#8217;re all in the same boat, with kids around the same age (which is also how we know each other). The children go\/went to the same school. They play soccer together, attend the same volleyball class, and we&#8217;re members of the same swimming club. We spend quite a few weekends together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_6807-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Chuleton!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10456\" \/>About once a month, we follow the same ritual. We leave from the square near where we all live and drive to the restaurant. We start with a beer and choose a huge cut of meat, anywhere between one and two kilos. The steak is prepared, and then served to us with a hot stone so we can do the final touches ourselves. Naturally, it&#8217;s accompanied by a good bottle of red wine. Then it&#8217;s time to eat and above all, to enjoy. We always go on Thursdays, because there&#8217;s always space and we don&#8217;t need to book or wait.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a coffee to wrap things up, and that&#8217;s it again. We usually spend around 50\/60 euros per person, but oh, it&#8217;s worth every cent. Sometimes we talk about trying a different restaurant, just to see what the chulet\u00f3n is like elsewhere. But we haven&#8217;t dared to make the switch yet, and we stick to our trusted tradition at &#8216;our&#8217; restaurant. I suspect the atmosphere and quality we&#8217;ve found at El Chuleton would be hard to beat, and that changing locations would almost certainly be a letdown.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chulet\u00f3n is a large ribeye steak with the bone still in. These steaks are massive\u2014over a kilo\u2014and meant to be shared. In Spain, going out for a chulet\u00f3n is much more than just dining out. It\u2019s a social event, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/el-chuleton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genieten","category-traditie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}