About Restaurante el Portal de La Gallarda
Comment by Bravissima about Restaurante el Portal de La Gallarda:
El Portal de La Gallarda Restaurant, located in the beautiful Costa Brava, offers a unique culinary experience in a charming setting. With a carefully designed decor and a spectacular terrace, it is the ideal place to enjoy Mediterranean cuisine.
Among the restaurant's strengths are:
- Exceptional food: Dishes made from local products, highlighting the slow-cooked lamb, black rice, and shrimp carpaccio from Roses.
- Welcoming service: Friendly and attentive staff that makes diners feel at home.
- Charming atmosphere: Located on the wall of Castelló d'Empúries, it offers stunning views and a tranquil ambiance.
- Great value for money: Affordable menus and attention to detail that reflects their passion for food.
Despite mixed reviews about certain menu items, the vast majority of visitors recommend El Portal de La Gallarda as a must-visit place to enjoy delicious food in a spectacular environment.
Opening hours
- Monday: Cerrado
- Tuesday: Cerrado
- Wednesday: Cerrado
- Thursday: 12:30–15:00
- Friday: 12:30–15:00
- Saturday: 12:30–15:00
- Sunday: 12:30–15:00
Restaurante el Portal de La Gallarda: Reviews
Negative experience:
A tourist trap: mussels not cleaned, turbot overcooked and deplorable service, however, the setting is superb.
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Fantastic experience: Very tasty, everything perfectly prepared. Friendly staff. Gives an extra holiday feeling.
Fantastic experience: A beautiful setting, good food and a very friendly service and ... dogs are allowed!
Positive experience:
Very well kept restaurant both inside and outside. Good terrace, friendly staff, good portions, very good black rice, desserts could be improved.
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Fantastic experience:
Menus are fine. Quality price good. You can mix dishes with the menu. Very nice, on the terrace it is luxurious to eat, and the place is very beautiful
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Fantastic experience:
Good place to eat...very attentive
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Fantastic experience:
Excellent and km0 food, excellent lamb, slow cooked for 8 hours. Excellent the carpaccio of shrimps of Rosas. And especially the Roses anchovies marinated in salt for a year. The service has been charming and shows that people who love the profession transmit it in the kitchen, in the service. We are very grateful for the kind treatment to us. It has been a pleasure to taste the selected dishes.
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Fantastic experience:
An unforgettable experience, the spectacular place, the very familiar service, the short menu but you don't need more, more spectacular price quality, to repeat without a doubt
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Fantastic experience:
Nice place, very cordial treatment, well prepared and tasty food. Quality / price in line.
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Very good place to go. A luxurious meal with a very friendly and attentive staff. The unbeatable space.
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Fantastic experience:
Restaurant in Castelló d'Empuries, excellent service and traditional Mediterranean food, rose anchovies on bread and tomato .. grilled octopus with vegetables .. delicious lamb back with grilled vegetables. And delicious lemon pie. Price adjusted to The quality, wine recommended by them..good. Everything adjusted in price. They also have a menu for about € 19.
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Fantastic experience:
Excellent!!! And price according
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Fantastic experience: Great location on the edge of the village looking over the Ampurdan. Good card and kitchen. Enjoy Marianne
Fantastic experience:
We made the rice menu and had a fantastic lunch, at a very reasonable price. 100% recommended
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Fantastic experience:
A spectacular place, great food and very good service too. A place to repeat!
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tt was exceptionally good. Warm welcome and impeccable service. to be redone as soon as possible
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Fantastic experience:
An essential place if you visit Castelló d'Empuries. Excellent product, local and taking care of the details. Quality / Price 10.
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Fantastic experience:
We went for a lunch menu on the weekend with the whole family, all very good. A very nice restaurant, very Mediterranean atmosphere and the treatment especially with children is excellent. We will be back soon !!!
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Fantastic experience:
Beautiful at night. Great price quality Fantastic cuisine. RECOMMENDED
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The place is great, nice atmosphere, and very good service. Very correct menu, good quality products. Cod, spectacular. Place not to be missed if you are in this area. And we will be back!
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Fantastic experience: Superb restaurant with local food. Delicious steak eaten 400gr. Nice service with humor and in the background the bassist and guitarist playing.
Fantastic experience:
Very good food, with first class service and a reasonable price. And I will be back.
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Fantastic experience: It was a very good restaurant with perfectly priced dishes and the nicest most considered server ever. We would absolutely come back next time we're here.
Fantastic experience:
Excellent quality and very affordable price. I am from BARCELONA and the same would have cost me 50% more.
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Fantastic experience:
Exceptional setting. Perfect service and welcome. Very good food!
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Fantastic experience:
A very pleasant place, impeccable service. A la carte, inventive and tasty cuisine. A pleasant moment.
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Fantastic experience:
All great! The terrace, the food, the staff ... To repeat! Thanks for this experience!
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Fantastic experience: Superb food and friendly service. We have eaten here this year in preference to every restaurant we know, both "just us" and with many friends. Anna and Marga are the perfect hosts, the location and setting is charming, and to sum up, our discover of the Portal has made a perfect succession of Sundays for us in 2021.
Fantastic experience:
Very good. And as a gift a beautiful walled place. The fantastic deal.
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Fantastic experience:
Spectacular place next to the wall of the beautiful village of Castelló d'Empúries. Menu and menus with prices starting at € 18. Excellent service. I'll be back Better book!
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Charming restaurant in a fantastic enclave in the vila de Castelló d'Empuries. Product of km0 and good cuisine. Very friendly staff at all times and prompt service. Recommended 100%>
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Fantastic experience: Top restaurant with a friendly welcome by Anna and ditto staff. A unique and atmospheric location. And of course the food and wine are excellent in terms of price quality. Really worth the detour.
Fantastic experience:
Friendly setting to taste the best beer in the world (and I know what I'm talking about) In addition, the staff are very pleasant.
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Fantastic experience:
The home cooking is excellent. The setting is magnificent and the welcome perfect. We have been coming for years and each time we have the pleasure of meeting each member of this restaurant, which is one of the essentials for us. Over time we have become friends which adds a lot more fun to our taste tours. Do not miss !!
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Fantastic experience:
Cozy and quiet terrace. Organic and local food, delicious dishes. Very efficient service, good value for money
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Very good cuisine, better treatment and a terrace on the wall carefully cared for. Highly recommended and quality price quite good.
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Fantastic experience:
Super good, a magical place with a very reasonable menu and great attention
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Restaurant in a beautiful location. The food is excellent, the treatment is also exquisite and the prices of the menus are very good value for money. We will be back
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Fantastic experience:
An extraordinary menu at a good price
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Fantastic experience:
A very nice patio, excellent service and a great dinner at a very good price. Anna and Magda make you feel like family.
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Fantastic experience:
Cozy space, exquisite staff treatment, quality food and reasonable price. Highly recommended.
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Fantastic experience:
Great place to enjoy a great meal. Quality of the raw material in relation to the fantastic price !! We will repeat for the third time for sure!
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Very good quality price, I would say q excellent. Very friendly treatment. They have a great € 18 menu. Highly recommended.
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Excellent value for money, as is the service. Highlight the environment and decoration. We loved it. Both the grilled turbot and the honey ribs stand out. We will be back!!!
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Excellent food in an incomparable setting.
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Restaurant in a nice and quiet environment where you can enjoy a quiet and good quality meal. Friendly and attentive service. Fresh and well prepared products. After visiting Castelló d'Empúries it is a good idea to make a reservation at this restaurant to retake the pulse and enjoy a meal with your family or partner.
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Spectacular terrace with views. A very intimate and calm atmosphere. They make a menu at noon for 18 euros exquisite. It is one of those places that leave their mark. Definitely recommended !!
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A few of the food was amazing. The staff was great. Reasonable prices. Magnificent setting on the terrace. We will definitely go back. Highly recommended!
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Fantastic experience: Fantastics menus
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Spectacular! If you go to Castelló d'Empúries, it is a must stop!
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Splendid location. Charming place, with great taste, romantic. Excellent price quality menu. And as the icing on the cake Marga and Anna, their lovely owners.
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Superb setting, calm, well decorated. Classic cuisine and could be better enhanced.
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Fantastic experience:
Very cozy restaurant, we have dinner on the terrace and great privacy and tranquility. Excellent waiter service and perfect food Price quality could well be more adjusted.
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A place full of history, a shaded terrace and a delicious menu ... some more to ask?
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Fantastic experience:
We were attended by Ana and a couple of very attentive waiters at all times. We came to this place recommended by the owner of a rural house (Ca la caputxeta). Friendly, polite and attentive in case we need anything. The place is beautiful and quiet, the food excellent (to repeat when we return here). Recommended 100%
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Fantastic experience:
It is a place full of charm and fantasy "El Portal de la Gallarda" by Marga and Anna. You have surprised us again, you look ahead and adversity cannot with you. Day by day you show us with your kitchen and I treat that you are a family and you make us feel part of it. Although distance separates us, you know that whenever we are close, you will count on us to spend a few hours, enjoying those dishes that we like so much. You have shown that "SI SE PUEDE", continue like this, strength and hugs for everyone.
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It is very special and cozy, the treatment, the kindness and the quality of its products make you want to repeat the visit. Marga and Ana are 11 and Óscar is a charm. Whenever possible I will repeat without hesitation.
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Brutal dinner. Honey steak is the best I've ever eaten Everyone should enjoy this experience. Local and personal, unbeatable.
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Fantastic experience:
Good food ... Good attention and ideal place to enjoy a very good view while eating on the terrace. Recommended to go there.
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Very good cuisine. Reasonable price. Charming place and good service. Special mention of its policy against Covid, with weekly PCR to the staff.
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Difficult to choose from all the dishes with local ingredients. Amazing Roses Shrimp Carpaccio and Awesome Black Rice. The waiters treatment super close !! We will repeat
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Today I want to thank the Restaurant Portal de la Gallarda, Anna Colomer and Marga Rosés, for this good rice aside! We enjoyed their cooking, from home and it was fantastic !! Super well prepared so you can take it and enjoy it - hot. Thank you very much
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Fantastic experience:
Spectacular terrace. Super professional waiters. Good food. There is a menu for 17.50 (18.50 on weekends) which is very good. I recommend it
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Great view, delicious beer (Moritz) and a really good kitchen.
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Restaurant in a very cozy place with a good view. Black rice was very good. He did not give to repeat too much for the amount but it was adequate. The bleeding is very good as well as the rest. Very good service. And an adequate price. To return to it.
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Fantastic experience:
Most fabulous restaurant experience!!! Best place not only in Castelló de Empuries but in the whole region!! Do not miss!!!
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Excellent food and service. The attention is very good, and the food too. Another highlight is the magnificent views on the terrace. In my opinion it is a 100% recommended restaurant.
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An excellent week € 12 week menu. The cozy place and a terrace with breathtaking views of the Empordà. The charming service. Highly recommended!
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Great, very familiar treatment and the food very good normal price for what we eat good menu
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Fantastic experience: Super good, food and prices! Owner and staff is friendly and nice to kids We had a really pleasant lunch with a nice setting and view
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Very good restaurant with a bombing right on the city wall and great views. Food is very good, lots of meat and fish. For dessert try the chocolate volcano ...
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Quiet, comfortable restaurant with excellent cuisine and affordable prices. It was last year. Friends brought here not long ago and were very disappointed. Serving dishes and serving does not match the price. The salad is not the same as in the photo, but in the usual white round plate, piled everything in a heap, as in the canteen. and it is priced at 10e. And everything else looked awful. Looks like the cook left them. We won’t return here anymore. I'm sorry, the place is very beautiful.
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Fantastic experience:
The best value for money restaurant in Castellón de Ampurias. We stayed in the town for a week and after trying several restaurants downtown, this was the only one that served quality food at a reasonable price. Good atmosphere and very careful service. He also agreed that there was live music so it was a success.
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Fantastic experience:
We went to celebrate my father's birthday. The deal was great and the price was very good. The place is absolutely beautiful.
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Fantastic experience: Beautiful and cozy location with great views for great food! Anna and Marga are sweet and friendly hostesses who go for service and quality .. Chapeau for the chefs and service, although we personally found the green shirts to fit the appearance of restaurants a little less, beautiful white shirt fits better in our quake, but that's personal. Anna y Marga, Muchos Grasias! Love from Monique y Familia x
Fantastic experience: In the afternoon we had a nice coffee here and after seeing the menu we decided to eat here in the evening. All vegetables come from the restaurant's own garden and you can taste it. The meat was super tender and had a nice flavor. You will be pampered here in a hospitable and friendly manner.
Fantastic experience:
Perfect. There is a space with romantic views. Rest of local very well. Separate tables. Very good service at a reasonable price. The next visit I'll stay for dinner.
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The space enjoys beautiful views, the very correct service, the great food and with a good presentation. We selected the weekend menu and the perfect value for money !! Highly recommended!
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Fantastic a good place to enjoy all its corners and gastronomy
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Fantastic experience: Delicious 3 (small) course lunch for a nice price on a very nice terrace. If you visit the basilica in this place, just continue cycling for a great view of a very nice terrace !!
Fantastic experience:
Good food, nice place and good price. Very attentive staff.
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An incredible place, good treatment, good food and wonderful views.
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Fantastic experience: Fantastic surroundings. Very friendly staff. Very nice food. Affordable Prices.
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Absolutely and unreservedly to be recommended. Were there 2 times and enjoyed 3 courses each. We were priced for 2 people at around 75 euros, which is perfectly appropriate for the ambience and food.
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Fantastic experience:
Good restaurant allowing to know local products. Example: a huge steak from the region of 400 grams accompanied by vegetables grown in the gardens opposite, for 17 euros. Helpful staff. Meal in a beautiful courtyard, with a magnificent fig tree, flowers and old stones, as well as a medieval gate. For 2 people, possibility of reserving a beautiful table with a beautiful view, overlooking these gardens and facing the mountains and villages in the area (see photo).
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Fantastic experience:
Lovely place for a summer night, you can dine in an iconic place under the stars. Correct service and very good food, especially foie gras flakes, grilled feet, magret, a melon soup and exquisite appetite ... Wow, to repeat
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We actually wanted to eat in the Casa Clara restaurant. If you want to visite, you have more, you have to book a restaurant in the city. We then experienced something special from the ambience and the dishes. Everything is prepared by the visible charcoal grill and chefs understand your craft perfectly. Both fish and the meat excellent. The starters are also great. We reserved again immediately. Price not cheap, but very good price-performance ratio. In fact, we wanted to eat at the Casa Clara Restaurant. However, as they had no more space, we were told that this restaurant so Belonged to you. Then we experience something from the atmosphere and the food. Everything is Prepared by the Visible Charcoal Grill and the Cooks Understand Their Craft Perfectly. Both Fish and Meat Are Excellent. Snacks are great too. We booked again immediately. Price Not Cheap, but very good value for money.
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What can we say about this exceptional restaurant where we had dinner 4 and 5 years ago? Today, despite this change of owner, and the opinions and comments that were sometimes very divergent that made us doubt, we were able to really see: That the place is still so idyllic, that the service is impeccable, that the dishes are of great quality and in quantity, that the new Management is attentive to its customers. The little extra from last night was this violin and guitar duet which made this moment sublime. Finally, the quality / price ratio makes this place a must for us!
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Cozy and friendly restaurant located on the walls of Castelló d'Empúries. A family-friendly atmosphere with a very nice and close deal. The menu presents traditional dishes made with local products, very flavored in all dishes in an unbeatable environment!
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Privileged place in the center of Castello d'Empuries excellent service good value for money, impressive grill, super recommended. It has a magnificent garden full of flowers to eat with beautiful views of the Emporda landscape
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Fantastic experience: Superb views are matched by the friendly staff, the warm welcome, the good food, and the lovely atmosphere. The restaurant enjoys a fantastic setting in a very historic building in the beautiful village of Castello D'Empuries. Highly recommend. Julian and Nicola, England.
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Very good restaurant, nice setting, the welcome is perfect, the staff is very pleasant. I recommend
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We have eaten very well. € 12 menu very good weekdays. Catalan food of proximity. Attentive and pleasant treatment. They let us enter the dining room with our dog without problems. Without a doubt, we will repeat
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Fabulous Perfect treatment, good food. In addition, the terrace is fantastic (except if you want to continue combing, bumpers from the Empordà breeze!). We ordered the menu (on a weekday) and in addition to good quality, the amount surprised us. We will be back for sure!
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Restaurant with several km0 products, among its menu, which means all the quality of the products of its lands and coasts. The place has a dream terrace, where the hours of the day and night will escape you, without realizing it. The treatment of the service, exquisite. For suggestions, its local meats and especially the fish from its coasts. Another secret of this place is its cocktails and cocktails that Juan (Nitu) prepares, after a good dinner or lunch, since he is an experienced cocktalero.
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New address! Marga and Anna are fantastic, super attentive at all times. Great food, varied menu for all tastes. The products are Km 0, of quality that can be seen on the plate. The place is beautiful both to eat and to have a drink at night. Highly recommended!
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Wonderfull place ! Great food, great view
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