Jano Montano
An acceptable Spanish restaurant
One of my premises as a traveler is that when I'm abroad I try to avoid Spanish cuisine restaurants. One reason is that it makes no sense to spend a fortune traveling to eat what's on the next corner. The other is that beyond our borders what is offered as Spanish cuisine is little more than sangria and paella. And on many occasions it is confused with Mexican cuisine ... Anyway, I failed to obey my own rule on several occasions, this being one of them. It was next to our hotel and I remember seeing it years ago, and because of mere compromise, I had accepted the invitation of an American colleague to eat Spanish food as it seemed the height of the exotic.
I had completely forgotten about this restaurant, remembered it immediately as one of the sins of youth. And the truth is that as a restaurant this place is not bad. The food is acceptable. Not that there's much variety of tapas and supply mostly revolves around meat and grilled sausages, but they have beers and Spanish wines. The predictable setting is complete with: Bulls, tambourine and flamenco. But what they serve you can eat. And never order paella. If you do it within our borders and it is a calculated risk, imagine how it can be in a place where the nearest salt water is almost 3,000 miles away ... No way!
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