Le Bistró by El Conjuro

Le Bistro by El Conjuro reminded me what good innovative restaurants are supposed to be: bold flavors, interesting food combinations, and good service on top of that. Shrimp Tartar with Sea Urchin sauce was out of this world!

The restaurant being on Michelin guide, the expectations were set high. We ordered the tuna tartar, artichokes, hake and pork dishes. Tartar was excellent! Artichokes didn’t work great with the egg yolk and we didn’t taste the truffle at all. Hake was extremely salty and couldn’t eat it. The pork dish in beet sauce was excellent and the best we have ever had. The server was very helpful in explaining the dishes and making recommendations. For some reason there were very few people at the restaurant and still the service took forever. We spent 2.5 hours at the restaurant for ordering a couple of starters and main course.

Amazing place! Every dish was a masterpiece. Our favorites were scallops and cheesecake with truffle. Both artichoke dishes and tuna tartar were delicious too. I would definitely come back. It’s the best food I had in Andalucía!

It’s surprising how easily you can bump into a Michelin in Granada 😄 Absolutely brilliant dining experience: refined and elegant (even tapas), but truly Spanish. Superb cuisine and service. Outstanding wine card too. Yeah and you feel like home, nothing of “oh-my-how-to-hold-that-shark-knife” 😅 Highly recommended!

The grilled artichoke is top! Our party of four all pleased with the food. Though it does not have a vegetarian-friendly menu, they kindly offer leek and aubergine main courses with some changes.

Very experimental place - some of the dishes were some of the most interesting stuff I've ever tried, such as their artichoke with egg yolk or their shrimp tartare with uni emulsion. Their portions are also unexpectedly large. Their paella was a bit too salty but still pretty delicious. The bread was phenomenal, definitely some of the best breads I've ever had. I would pay triple for their bread service.

Granada has excellent restaurants that featuring traditional high-quality creative Spanish cooking. However, innovative cuisine has been largely absent until now. Andalucia is one of the more traditional and conservative regions of Spain, which is part of the charm of the region. The “Granainos” are not as adventurous as those from other regions when it comes to food. Fortunately this is an outstanding restaurant which uses Spanish cooking techniques and elevates the creativity to a level that you would expect if you’re in Madrid, Pais Vasco, or Cataluña. Several reviewers have complained about one of the lovely appetizer dishes: the artichoke. The reason you have it at the beginning of your meal is because It is a very subtly flavored item. The courses of the meal are not simply a hodgepodge of things you want to eat, but are designed to be eaten in a specific order. This artichoke is particularly good, since it is available out of season and it is preserved, and I believe also poached, in high-quality olive oil. The yolk is perfectly cooked up the and this is a lovely way to start. I do agree with others that some of the food is saltier than I would like. But then again, people in Spain are used to putting much more salt in the food than some of us from other parts of the world would like. One example of this is the otherwise excellent sepia rice dish Nobody does seafood as well as the Spanish. Everything is at this restaurant is astonishingly fresh. In fact, some locally available srimp are actually driven from the coast to arrive about one hour before the restaurant opens. It doesn’t get any fresher than that unless you’re sitting with the toes in the sand… The waitstaff is incredibly knowledgeable about wine. I strongly recommend you tell them what you normally would like and let them make suggestions. Or even better let them pair the ones with your meals. I had one of the best Spanish wines I’ve had in many years, which was a lovely elegant Bierzo You must have the cheesecake for dessert. It is the best I have ever had. It is Spanish style, not New York. It is rich but light at the same time and has a lovely herbal touch.

Had very high expectations which were not met. The octopus and mango dish was flavourless and under seasoned, and the charcoal Iberian pork was dry and again lacking of depth of flavour. The sauce was also a peculiarly meaningless addition. The artichokes were good though but not nearly enough to salvage the train wreck of our night.