Raise your hand if you made paella before?? Ok, I see a number of you…read more.
Raise your hand if you made your paella in a paella pan made in Spain? Ok, fewer hands but I see you..
Now raise your hand if you made your paella with real saffron (from Iran or India)?? Ok, even fewer hands.
Finally, raise your hand if you visited Spain and skipped having paella?? Gasp!! What the?? I know, that would be unthinkable, unconscionable, unacceptable, un-American (huh??), un, un, you get it..
That almost happened as I'm trying to eat less rice because it's not really a healthy carb and frankly, I've been spoon fed rice since I was in the nest, given it intravenously, served it in my dreams. Do I really need to have one more spoonful or rice?? Yes, of course, so we gave Arrosseria Las Arenas (paella house) a shot as it was just a 40 meter walk from the hotel.
(Wow, that was a long wind up for the review part..)
We opted for the traditional paella and had some fried squid bites with sour cream dip. The fried fish was really good as we ate it all. The seafood paella tasted fine but it only had like 7 pieces of seafood and a ton of rice (which is what I was trying to avoid)..and it was a bit salty..
This is really a 2.5 star review because although we were the only diners, dining inside the restaurant (it was hot outside), we felt ignored throughout the entire meal. In fact, a server on his day off or a friend of the servers came in and they all chatted for at least 30 minutes. And the visitor had a non-stop annoying hack and it didn't sound good and it spoilt (sounds of phlegm) my appetite. TMI but I wanted you to get a taste of what I had experienced..
But other than that, this could have easily been a 4 star review..