This was the most touristy restaurant of our whole trip. I want to preface with that because my…read morereview will have a bias against processed foods and please-all generic renderings of dishes that arose from the uniqueness of the region. Unfortunately many restaurants were closed because it was a Wednesday (and that is a normal closure day for the more authentic places we wanted to visit) and because it was Semana Santa. We ended up choosing from the many touristy restaurants open which offered the standard regional dishes (however processed and simplified they were).
The ambiance is a courtyard patio, meant to nod to the many celebrated show patios of Cordoba. Our server was friendly and attentive, definitely 5 stars for him. He quickly sat us and got us water and nice house tinto (I just asked for "tinto de casa" and he offered something we liked).
My husband had Salmorejo that was like a canned version of the regional favorite. It can get so much better than this, and he had it better elsewhere.
My son had a flamequin that also appeared to be a supplier version of the regional staple. It was a deep fried roll of passable ham, turkey, cheese, etc. Grocery store frozen aisle quality.
My husband's pisto, again, seemed like a can dumped in a bowl with fried egg and garnishes.
Patatas bravas? Ingredients probably from cans and squirt bottles, layered like factory pieces, with nothing really complementing anything else. Disjointed flavors clashing with each other and just nothing of good quality.
My husband's oxtail, okay but nothing spectacular yet again. No love from the kitchen.
I had a boring salad. It tasted fine. Greens were mostly iceberg (boo) with some green leaf or bib-looking leaves in there. Nothing memorable.
For dessert my husband had the local dish, pastel Cordobes, which is a cinnamony spaghetti squash tart supposed to taste like apple pie. That was the best thing of the meal, but still not memory-worthy.
My son enjoyed his tarta de queso. Just a dessert not a memory.
All in all, extremely meh. No one here is trying to do more than make the most money possible for low quality dishes that taste canned, frozen, and processed. Fair market restaurant value for this food is about half what they charged.
I am sure most clients visit once and never return, and they definitely don't remember this as a highlight of Cordoba.