La vela Opening Hours, Menu and Opinions

Costa Brava Baix Empordà Calella de Palafrugell Places to eat

About La vela

C/ Calau, 2 - 17210, Calella de Palafrugell
+34 972 61 60 14

Comment by Bravissima about La vela:

Located on the beautiful Costa Brava, La Vela in Calella de Palafrugell offers an exceptional dining experience right by the sea. With a varied menu that highlights the quality of its dishes, patrons have particularly praised the lobster rice and delicious paellas.

Some key highlights of the restaurant include:

  • Fresh products and well-presented dishes that provide excellent value for money.
  • A friendly and attentive staff ensuring every visit is memorable.
  • Stunning sea views, perfect for enjoying meals while taking in the scenery.
  • A cozy atmosphere, ideal for families and groups of friends.

Customers have mentioned returning to La Vela time and again, highlighting the kindness of its owner, Luis, who always strives to make his guests feel at home. Undoubtedly, La Vela is a must-visit for anyone looking to enjoy great food in a spectacular setting.

Opening hours

  • Monday: 9:00–24:00
  • Tuesday: 9:00–24:00
  • Wednesday: 9:00–24:00
  • Thursday: Cerrado
  • Friday: 9:00–24:00
  • Saturday: 9:00–24:00
  • Sunday: 9:00–24:00

La vela: Reviews

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Roc 04/05/2022

Fantastic experience: We repeat and we were not disappointed. Spectacular lobster rice and great seafood mussels. And next to the beach!
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Reconcept Gastronomia 04/05/2022

Fantastic experience: One of the best paellas that we have eaten in Calella, we repeated to taste the rice with a canard and we liked it very much! recommended!
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Greg 02/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Very nice place, the products are very fresh, the plates well filled and well presented, very good value for money, the staff listening, we have spent in very good time, we highly recommend
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Christophe Bodelot 27/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Very nice staff

Susana Toledano Perez 21/04/2022

Positive experience: This restaurant has some of the best views of the Sea in Calella de Palafrugell, quality-price is right because the place is worth it, a beautiful area to eat watching the sea, we always order the menu, mussels, salad and paella, the rice is cooked and it is very good, Luis always very friendly knows how to organize so that we all feel at ease...
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Francesc Sanchez Lorca 20/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Very good everything, lunch and staff, highly recommended.
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jose gandara 20/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Good food, service too
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David Talavera 16/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Good value for money. Located on the first line with good views. They have made us a place without having a reservation and with the restaurant full, a great gesture. Good service. The chocolate fritters are very good.
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Inga C. 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Excellent service and delicious grilled vegetables
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Núria Camps Cuscó 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: We were treated very kindly and the squid and rice were delicious. Attentive and fast staff. Highly recommended!
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sergi marzá 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: We ate 8 people. We shared some steamed fritters, squid and mussels, and a sailor rice. Some child has made macaroni and anchovies from the ladder. We had lunch at 13.30 (booking before), on the terrace, with sea views. All very good, very fast and very friendly service and 25th per head, with drinks, desserts, coffees ... I don't put any glue.
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Elisa Franci 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Great! Beautiful view, very kind waiters, delicious and abundant food (fish dishes). Finally a "good sauce" that is good and not made with ketchup and mayonnaise.
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david vargas marquez 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: We have been coming for years whenever we can to the restaurant La Vela in Calella de Palafrugell, as always, everything is very good, spectacular views and great attention. Thanks for everything and see you next time !!
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jan trallero 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: We ate 4 people and three of them ate the rice menu. Both the rice and the salad and mussels were delicious. Very good care and very correct. Definitely a place to go back.
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Javi Mur 04/04/2022

Fantastic experience: We ordered takeaway food for lunch and then dinner as well: a fideuà for lunch and at night a turbot and a monkfish. All very good and very well presented!
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H3idi M.L 04/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Well located and excellent value for money. very complete menu
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Rakel Conde 04/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Soupy rice with lobster, impressive!!!!!
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Jose Navarro Quiles 14/02/2022

Fantastic experience: It eats great, very good quality at a good price. The seafood rice on the menu and the tellerinas are very good. highly recommended
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Carles Roig 04/02/2022

Fantastic experience: Perfect lunch. Privileged place with spectacular views from the terrace, next to the famous vaults of Calella de Palafrugell. The food is very well prepared, all home cooking. Excellent value for money. Everything we ate was amazing, and even the desserts, I recommend the chocolate fritters and the annealing. A marvel !! Very correct and friendly staff treatment. Everything perfect, totally recommended
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Kimmen Sjolander 04/02/2022

Fantastic experience: Fantastic food and great service and a view to knock your socks off. After our first meal here we came back two more times -- ignoring the other restaurants open. We had the fresh grilled fish (turbot and sea bass) and a side order of roasted veggies for the two larger meals. Both fish were exceptional, as were the roasted veggies. The servers are very nice, too. This restaurant appears to be popular with locals, as we saw many people who live here greeting friends. Great coffee, too! A definite must if you are in Calella.

Elio Maidana 04/01/2022

Fantastic experience: I ate the best paella I have tasted in Spain in this restaurant. The prices are according to the place and the service. Excellent! Highly recommended
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TONI DAHMS MICHALOVE 04/11/2021

Fantastic experience: Fab food. Went there twice in 2 days. Red sangria is delicious.

Laura Jorge Martin 04/10/2021

Fantastic experience: First line, UNBEATABLE treatment and HIGHLY recommended menu !!!
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Joan Insensé 04/10/2021

Fantastic experience: Ideal restaurant to eat rice or fideuá on the seafront. The waiters are always very attentive and with a cheerful and friendly treatment. For my taste, I think there is a lack of variety in fish as the main dish. There are more types of meat (hamburgers, ribs ...) than fish, but I imagine that it is aimed at the demand of foreign customers. We repeat every summer and we are always going to eat good rice, so the variety is just a suggestion.
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marta santolaria garcia-cuevas 04/10/2021

Fantastic experience: Amazing both the food and the service! The menu is super good for € 29, facing the sea, all very tasty and the owner is super friendly! Super recommended !!
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Antonio Reyes Menendez 21/09/2021

Positive experience: Good value for money, for me I taste a good rice a la marinera. Very friendly staff.
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Damià Capellera Caro 04/07/2021

Fantastic experience: They have a green salad menu, steamed mussels and a marinade rice broth, water and wine and dessert for € 29, which is great, and everything was very good. With spectacular views at the foot of the beach. With a correct and friendly service.
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Ester Armengol 04/07/2021

Fantastic experience: Fantastic dinner in front of the sea! Delicious broth rice !!!!! The best we've ever tried! Super friendly service! An unforgettable night!
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Serge Metge 04/06/2021

Fantastic experience: Very good service very good location correct meal

SEGUNDO GARCIA RODRIGUEZ 04/06/2021

Fantastic experience: Very nice staff and good food

Mario Álvarez 04/06/2021

Fantastic experience: You eat wonderfully well there!
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Gemma Adam Milan 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: Very good food and great service !!
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Feliciano Gonzalez 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: It is a site that I recommend to anyone, excellent price quality and service a very good 10
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Xavi A. 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: Very correct restaurant on the seafront. Excellent staff attention, respect all Covid-19 protocols, and portion sizes are generous. Very nice when the sun is shining. Good price for the situation and food quality.
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Lidia Rosillo Sanchez 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: Highly recommended, the rice with lobster + squid and a bottle of Cava Rosado. Exquisite. In addition to being very full. Luis and his team a deal of 10. We will repeat !!!
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Emma Astorch 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: € 25 menu with a spectacular seafood broth rice
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Roger Rib Superior 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: Great food and fast and attentive service. It took us 15 minutes to pay. The rest, without a doubt, very well. Covid distances 1/5 topic. They pass it through the lining.
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Eusebio Bonilla 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: Good rice, first line to the Sea !!! Perfect service.
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Juan David Restrepo 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: Nice site, excellent and quick service.Great views
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Raquel Caminada Gonzalez 04/05/2021

Fantastic experience: We went with the whole family and had a great dinner !!
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susana Parkinson 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Good treatment, friendly and friendly waiters.
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yanr3etona Jaramillo 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Excellent service, very friendly. And especially the perfect food!
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Mauro Valenzuela 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Well the vella restaurant nice and good food

Nadine Delestinne 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Very nice place. Be sure to try the grilled fish dish for 2 people. Friendly staff.

Lluís Rosell 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Moon, music, fish, very good five star cuisine.
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Sabine Brech 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Very nice setting, very pleasant smiling waiter, top-notch meal and the price An address not to forget Thank you
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Didac Lopez Vinyas 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: In front of the sea. Very good tapas and fish
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Brice Cristofari 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: A massacre. Super quality, quantity. And the ice creams are terrible.
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Juan Hueso Morón 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Very advisable restaurant, I went with my wife to Calella de Palafrugell to spend the day and walking around we saw this restaurant and stopped for lunch. fried fish the same, all very good, we will repeat.
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Andrea Diez Irabien 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: The views are impressive, breakfast an anchovy sandwich and the large portion of ciabatta toast and anchovies of first quality and 2'5 euros and the coffee very correct
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Jaideep Prabhu 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Amazing location and service I ordered the kids portion of pasta Bolognese which was actually kind of massive but it was good. A bit overpriced but what can you expect from a restaurant next to the sea. Nice refreshing melon for dessert which we needed (33 degrees by the way) finished off our pleasent experience I would recommend it unless you're on a budget but if you're minted or just normal then it's the perfect place for you. Restaurante La Vela™ Review by Arthur Oxlade Chamberlain 11 years old

Rahul Shastry 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: The restsurant is located in an excellent location overlooking the sea. The staff are friendly and the food is very good.

Dawn Sullivan 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Absolutely the best restaurant in Barcelona for amazing risotto, bisteca and atmosphere.

peet twobikes 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Cozy not too expensive restaurant. Good food.

Joe Bloggs 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Great spot for a coffee, lots of action with boats going in and out. Great view of the bay and harbour. The staff are nice, very efficient. The coffee us really great. It fills up quickly. Get there for 9.30 and get your morning off to a good start

Marc Martorell 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Very good fish. Generous menu, quality and well cooked. Very attentive staff. With good views and calm winter.
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Jordi Anisi 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Perfect for taking a vermouth in front of the beach, watching people go by.
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S. Cortés 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: The place is brutal! In front of the sea in a unique environment. The food well, without great pretensions.
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Teresa CL 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Eating in this restaurant, with its views, its paella full of fresh seafood and attentive and polite waiters made my visit to Palafrugell unforgettable! Today in the office I was not a companion to recommend this fantastic restaurant. I hope to repeat soon!
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Shams Hanna 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Xc

richard paoletti 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Location super good food and super long story was good all the food and there are also menu for children
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Ana Ferrer 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Very good place to eat in calella, the idyllic place and the black rice, spectacular, as well as the generosity of the dishes, also to highlight the friendliness of the waiters, we will repeat for sure !!
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William Carlos Vanhout 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: The food was delicious and the staff was super friendly, specially Lluis. I recommend this restaurant.

Lee Valentine 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Top notch food and service!

mark franklin 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Great food great beer great view great staff

Lidia Busquets 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: We ate seafood paella, it was very good. The attention very well, we attended immediately, and next to the beach.
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Adam Ross 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Great service, nobody frowned at my bad Spanish and the food was delicious.

jatinder singh 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Nice hospitality
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Kike Rueda 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Cozy room next to a small cove. Pleasant service and good food
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Harry Boulton 04/05/2020

Fantastic experience: Excellent cocktails, friendly staff, and great music.
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janine khare 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Lovely food and a gorgeous view.

Brián 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Very good food for a relatively low price and with great views of the sea.
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Xavier Pascual 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Good and fast food. On the seafront. Very good deal.
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Nacho Alvarez Blu 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place ... located in front of the sea ... the dinner was excellent ... I would repeat again and again
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JOSEBA ZULAIKA 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: The best place in Calella to eat a paella. Exquisite treatment, excellent food. recommendable
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Mónica González 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: The candle, in Calella de Palafrugell ... Restaurant Next to the Beach, where you can taste a Delicious Paella Accompanied by a Seasonal Dish and a Fresh Albariño ... !!! #lavela #velarestaurantecalella #lavelarestaurante #velarestaurante # carrerdecalau4 #cocinamediterranea #gastronomy #restaurant #testaurantescalella #costabrava #rices #anchoas #mejillonesderoca #patatasbravas #chipirones #extiles #pacoranoyloummeothevend #foodfriendstreatscalella #pacoranoyloummeothevendo #foodfriendstreatment #yummyfood #deliciousdinner #somosporquecomemos #comunikacion #lookcalelladepalafrugell
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Aroa Cluet 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: GREAT deal, food very very good! We have enjoyed very much!

ESTHER MEDINA MAS 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Restaurant in Calella de Palafrugell one of the most beautiful coastal towns of the Costa Brava at the foot of the sea reservation must be made. Incredible menu at € 25 € and letter, of course.
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Ramona Vidal-Wagner 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Excellent letter and menu. On the seafront, good views.
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Olga C 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Unique space in front of the sea, magnificent rice, very attentive treatment, highly recommended
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Manu 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Delicious mariniere rice Very friendly welcome And nice sea view I advise
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Rafaela Pimentel 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Good rice with lobster and sepia! I recommend
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José Antonio Beltrán Castro 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Attentive service Abundant food and very good quality and price. Dessert letter very short. Spectacular views. Good place to repeat.
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Astride Muller 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: We eat well with a sea view

Odile Koenig 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: I tasted a monkfish stew and was delighted with my choice. Absolutely delicious. The kids ate burgers and enjoyed the meat. And the lobster rice was good too, but my darling who had tasted the burbot would have chosen it. And the welcome was just as excellent and warm.
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Carmelo Alejo 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Spectacular, the views and the site are very nice perfect service and very well priced
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ALBA CRUZ 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: La Vela is an important icon in Calella de Palafrugell, emblematic restaurant with seasonal dishes, very good rice dishes with excellent treatment, very friendly. Highly recommended..
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Inna Kreimer 04/05/2019

Fantastic experience: Restaurant on the beach in Calella. We ate paella with meat and seafood which was very tasty. Nice to sit outside and look out over the sea

Sylvain 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: We ate with the sea view, attentive service, (there were only 3 other tables with us), nice dishes very well presented and well served, very good value for money.
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Alexandra Same 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: Exquisite both in treatment and in the products offered, delicious menu, unbeatable price quality
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jorge garcia gomez 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: Very good food the rice with brutal lobster and the Lluís very nice and the staff very attentive
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Javier Lopez 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: Highly recommended very good paella they present it to you in the pot and then they serve it to you
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Rafael Reig Buse 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: Excellent tract Quality price very good fantastic views
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Esteve Salse 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: It is a good value for money, they offer a fairly complete menu of € 25 which includes rice with the seafood. The treatment of the head of the room was fantastic and the restaurant has a very nice terrace with sea views.
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Scarleth Ivelisse Castillo Tinoco 04/05/2018

Fantastic experience: Excellent service, delicious food super delicious black rice totally recommended 100%
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Tania 04/05/2017

Fantastic experience: Fantastic barbecue of seafood and fish :) to repeat! Good value for money!
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Wendy Gibb 04/05/2017

Fantastic experience: Friendly relaxed atmosphere. Stunning sea views

Pedro Motos 04/05/2017

Fantastic experience: Great views, and very good service
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Jofre Bertran 04/05/2017

Fantastic experience: In winter and during the week, it takes less rice for € 25. Includes salad, musclos, fish rice, casserole (bonissim) broths and desserts. Very good views and good service
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Karla Lam 04/05/2017

Fantastic experience: Absolutely fantastic food. Other restaurants do similar but this was by far the best. Very professional service, with a lovely atmosphere, very friendly and cracking view. Really price value with the set menu. Highly recommended. Much better than other higher rated restaurants in the area.

marie dud 04/05/2017

Fantastic experience: I confirm: the parrillada is very good and the sangria very fragrant !!! Very nice home.
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Алексей Ж 04/05/2016

Fantastic experience: Yummy. Seafood, fish, meat. Beautiful sea view

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