Opinion I ate my way across Spain and learned why messy floors are bestI once travelled across Spain with a group of Spaniards. I’d have breakfast at 7am; they would come at 9am. As for dinner, it was so late that I had to go out for dinner before I could go out for dinner. Pintxos bar floors … if they’re too busy to clean up, they must be good. “It’s because the Spanish are so social,” says Ruben Lopez Mesa, a proudly Spanish-born chef based in Orange, NSW.