Broccoliflower
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It’s in a beautiful location. I generally don’t care for tasting menus and prefer to create my own menu but we felt that we were pushed to order more food here, for instance a server recommended a 1.5x portion on our fish and lobster when a regular portion would have been fine; we are not big eaters. And especially disappointing given that those two dishes were by far the weakest.
The fabada is indeed very good and the thing to get here. Tomato salad with anchovies and peppers very good. The lobster salpicón was a huge letdown, the lobster overcooked and bland, tasting only of onions. At 100€ for a 1.5x portion I expected a much more pleasurable dish, like the salpicón we had several nights before at Alabaster, which was truly great.
The worst part of the meal was the hake. It simply was not good, I could smell it as soon as it was set down. It was nicely cooked but it was not fresh, and on top of that I was served a tail piece. Again we had just eaten top quality hake at Alabaster which was fresh in my mind and I’ve eaten plenty of excellent hake throughout Spain. Perhaps it’s because we’re tourists, I don’t know but this fish should have never been served. I didn’t return it and didn’t want to complain or make a scene in a restaurant clearly geared towards locals.
I thought desserts were underwhelming including the famous rice pudding. We ate a better rendition at Real Balneario and I’ve had much better all over France, but that’s probably just a matter of taste. Chocolate dessert was monotone with not much variation in flavors or textures, some contrasts would have been nice.
Regardless of these faults service was prompt and professional and it’s worth a visit for the fabada, but it was a very expensive lunch to leave so disappointed.