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    Bozena's

    Bozena's

    3.3(3 reviews)
    0.3 km

    This is a great restaurant in the old town area of Puerto del Carmen,it is recommended that you…read morebook before hand to avoid disappointment as the restaurant is very popular. My wife had the pork stuffed with prunes ,my daughter the chicken Kiev and myself the beef stroganoff .Everything was cooked to perfection and very tasty the staff were very friendly,all in all it was a great experience .

    This is a fabulous restaurant, nestled in a corner up over the harbour in the Old Town of Puerto…read moredel Carmen. The building itself is most unusual for this area, with its Juliette style balcony and windows filled with drooping plants and hanging baskets. There's also an array of potted plants at the main entrance on the street. Inside is equally gorgeous, bright, and airy with a winding staircase leading up to the top floor dining area. Once again, an array of planted greenery hangs down over the balcony. The food is fabulous with a huge selection of both Polish and Irish themed dishes and a good range of vegetarian dishes too. We had main courses of Polish Golobki which is minced meat wrapped in a cabbage leaf and baked a delicious tomato sauce, and Poledwica Sobieski ....prune stuffed pork steak served with a yummy white wine and cranberry sauce on a bed of mashed potatoes. All desserts are homemade and we had white chocolate and toffee cheesecake which was a little disappointing as it lacked any toffee flavour and was served with a very sparse chocolate sauce...would have been so delicious smothered with a toffee sauce I would have thought! The owner herself, Bozena, is very charming and welcoming as are all the staff. However I'm reluctantly not giving it top marks as I felt the main course portions were a wee bit on the small side and, unlike the last time I dined here, there was no complimentary drink offered at the end of the meal!

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    Bozena's - Polish Golabki

    Polish Golabki

    Bozena's - Beef Stroganoff

    Beef Stroganoff

    Bozena's - Poledwica Sobieski

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    Poledwica Sobieski

    la Marquesina - View into the restaurant

    la Marquesina

    2.9(11 reviews)
    27.6 km
    €€

    The view and ambience is really nice here, with a view of correlejo beach and its flanking…read morehotels/houses. During heat of summer, there is a nice breeze passing by, with cooling mist that descends upon the diners. The food is decent. I ordered gazpacho and fried squid. Both are pretty solid. The iberico ham plate (which another ordered) looked better than our food. The portions are HUGE here, under-order and you will not go hungry. The worst part is the service - not a great place for grabbing a quick bite. It takes 25 minutes just for the soup, another 20 minutes for fried squid after you finish your first course even though there were only 2-3 tables. Be prepared to linger and spend time here...

    This was recommended to us by a local tour guide, and the place is indeed excellent. The majority…read moreof dishes on offer is fish and/or seafood based, but there are a few meat dishes as well. As a vegetarian, I only had one option but that was a lovely veggie paella, which I enjoyed. Apart from the outstanding food, it was the attentive service that sold me on the place. We were a group of 11, and the waiters were friendly and seemed genuinely happy to be there and proud of the food they presented to us. The fish special of the day was a fish fillet, but that was obtained by cooking a whole fish that was then taken on a trolley to our table, where the waiter proceeded to expertly fillet it with much drama and show. It's perhaps not the cheapest place, but the service and the food cannot be faulted at all. Highly recommended!

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    la Marquesina - Nice view from the restaurant

    Nice view from the restaurant

    la Marquesina
    la Marquesina - Bonito restaurante en el paseo de Corralejo

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    Bonito restaurante en el paseo de Corralejo

    El Bodegon de Luan - Chorizo, swimming in its own grease

    El Bodegon de Luan

    3.3(3 reviews)
    2.3 km

    I'm surprised this place has no Yelp reviews yet - I happened to pass by it many times and read…read moreinto it on Tripadvisor. I felt like this was the closest to Spanish island authenticity you could get. While the touristy "English" options likely, and probably suck, their highlights are their tapas wheels. They have meat tapas wheels, fish tapas wheels, meat + fish tapas wheels, potato + sauce tapas wheels, and a vegetarian tapas wheel. So many options! I think the winner, and the one that I selected on my first night, was the mixed choose-your-own-tapas wheel. For a little under €12, you can choose 5 tapas dishes from a list, or pick 4 tapas + garlic prawns. I opted for the latter. It comes out on a literal wheel (ie. Lazy Susan) with segments for each dish. I still get confused on the difference between shrimp and prawns. I thought prawns were bigger, but these shrimp were typical sized. This was delicious, the garlic oil they were swimming in was so wonderfully garlicky. I, being a fool, tried this first and promptly burnt the tip of my tongue. For the 4 others, I chose: Canarian potatoes, chorizo, fried Lanzarote cheese with fig jam, and the chicken paella. The Canarian potatoes are essentially plain, baked baby potatoes that are accompanied by 2 killer sauces, 1 green and the other red. These are called mojo, and I strongly favored the green one which is apparently made with avocado (or so my Spanish understood...). The chorizo was pretty good, but not overly spicy and swimming in grease. The fried cheese was stellar with fig jam, but make sure you eat while hot otherwise it cools down and gets all congealy-cheese-like. Paella was okay, chicken and some clumps of rice were a bit dry. I also had a whole bottle of tempranillo, seeing as it was so cheap. When I asked for la cuenta (the check), the server came back with a shot of banana liqueur. I think everyone gets it - does drown out the garlic party going on in my mouth. Overall, I would definitely check this place out for the tapas - I'll be back more times to update with my favorites. I'm giving it 5* because out of all the patrons, there was just 1 guy taking orders and another lady delivering drinks/orders. Very impressive given how hard they were bolting around.

    We had a tapas wheel for lunch and I guess it was okay, but we had better meals for better prices…read morein Puerto del Carmen. I think this restaurant won't be our first choice next time when we're hungry...

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    El Bodegon de Luan - A finishing banana liqueur that accompanied the check

    A finishing banana liqueur that accompanied the check

    El Bodegon de Luan - The whole spread - 4 tapas + garlic prawns wheel and a bottle of tempranillo

    The whole spread - 4 tapas + garlic prawns wheel and a bottle of tempranillo

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