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Janet · 5th May 2007, 12:04

I´m afraid that I didn´t like it at all. The restaurant was clean and service was reasonable, prices were certainly low, especially compared with the holiday resorts. But the only reason for going there was to experience a "real" Canarian restaurant, and in this respect it was a total failure.

There are Canarian staff. That is it. There is a menu designed to cater for British tastes ... or rather, that which British tastes imagine Canarian cuisine to consist of. Standard fare is, really, the type of huge servings of mixed grill that you would never ever find in a true Canarian restaurant.

I was hugely disappointed, and won´t be going back ... not least because it was so incredibly noisy there that conversation was impossible. If anyone really wants real Canarian, they´ll need to go a bit further away from Los Cristianos than Valle San Lorenzo.

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Janet Banned Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tenerife Gender: Posts: 9,580	I´m afraid that I didn´t like it at all. The restaurant was clean and service was reasonable, prices were certainly low, especially compared with the holiday resorts. But the only reason for going there was to experience a "real" Canarian restaurant, and in this respect it was a total failure. There are Canarian staff. That is it. There is a menu designed to cater for British tastes ... or rather, that which British tastes imagine Canarian cuisine to consist of. Standard fare is, really, the type of huge servings of mixed grill that you would never ever find in a true Canarian restaurant. I was hugely disappointed, and won´t be going back ... not least because it was so incredibly noisy there that conversation was impossible. If anyone really wants real Canarian, they´ll need to go a bit further away from Los Cristianos than Valle San Lorenzo.