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Located in the most historic quarter, by the cathedral, Cunini is an amazing seafood restaurant in the heart of Granada. Come here for top quality fresh seafood brought daily from the Port of Motril on the Mediterranean. You won’t find a better range of fresh fish and shellfish in town. The mixed seafood platter and the spicy, sizzling prawns al pil-pil are worth trying. There is an outdoor patio and a stand-up tapas bar inside. The adjoining bar serves great tapas at reasonable prices.
The menu is Spanish,  as Spanish as it can get, and sticks firmly to tried and tested local favorites;  a seafood lover’s delight. The lunchtime menu of the day is good value for money at EUR15.02 for three courses and wine, and the atmosphere is the best.  Cunini restaurant is also well known for its warm hospitality and customized service. The huge dining hall of the Cunini restaurant constitutes an ideal venue to dine out with your family and friends.

It really is an adventurer’s delight and a visit to the city is not complete without eating out in a restaurant like this.

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Plaza Pescadería 14
18001 Granada
Tel. 958 267 587

For those of you with a GPS   37°10’35.32″N     3°36’2.61″W

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My friends had called upon me unexpectedly and said they wanted to go for tapas and drink, and asked me if I would like to join them.  Of course unless you are actually on your death bed you should leap at every opportunity to avail yourself of the excellent food available in Andalucia, so I immediately accepted the invitation.  Walking down to the Capri tapas restaurant we were disappointed to find that they were closed, but I had a brainwave and suggested that we walk a little further down to the terminus of the new railway/tram station to the Meson Iberico la Estacion Restaurant Bar that another friend, viz.,  Pilar, had told me about.  Tom was with us in his wheelchair so we were a little circumspect about the proposed visit to this restaurant as none of us had visited before.  We need not have been anxious as entry was easy and the owner cleared a way for us and simply re-arranged the tables.

What was intended to be just a simple snack turned out to be a full-blown meal with entertainment thrown in.  We had asked for a selection of fish and had a massive plate of salad and a plate of prawns as a starter, with all four of us tucking in with gusto.  Later a plate of calamari and a plate of grilled fish were served with beautiful fresh bread.  As a compliment to the food we were served an excellent house wine which was delicious and left a delightful flavour in the mouth.  We had really only anticipated stopping for thirty minutes or so, but the time rushed by as we sat and chatted to the owner in Spanish with one of his companions talking to us in excellent English. Read More…

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One of the great joys of eating out and eating well in Spain is that wonderful place, the tapas bar.  Said to have been introduced by General Franco to curb the Spanish worker from suffering from the effects of a drink at lunch time, he is said to have ordered that each beer or cerveza served should be accompanied by a small amount of food and some bars started to vie with each other to see who could supply the best or most varied tapas in their bar.  Very quickly people were being selective not on the best beer, but rather who had the best tapas in town.  Although most bars do offer tapas, for some this is no more than a piece of cheese with one or two pieces of bread.  In others you have a wide range of tapas from beautiful fish dishes to enticing meat dishes that have been prepared on the premises.

A fabulous example of a tapas bar is to be found at La Linea on the Spanish/Gibraltar frontier, called Jimmy´s Bar.  This is a place recognised by all nationalities as a place to go and eat, and indeed people from Gibraltar regularly take the short drive to go and have an evening out at very little expense.  You will probably have to queue at the door before you can place your order, but believe me it is well worth the wait.  When you have finally made it to the bar you place your order from the raw food on the counter, and are served your beer or wine.  Whilst your fresh food is being cooked you need to try and locate a vacant table. You will be hard pressed to find any vacant seats, such is the popularity of the place, but if you stand next to someone who looks as though they might be finishing you will find that people are very obliging, and will quickly gesture you to take your place at the table.  This is definitely not a place that you can linger after you have eaten because other people will want to follow your example and enjoy the lovely food.  The message really is one of enjoy, then move on. Read More…

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