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I recently visited El Limonar Restaurante in Velez Malaga, a brand new restaurant that deserves to succeed. The restaurant has superb decor, service and menu served by staff who take a pride in making your meal a truly memorable experience.  The head waiter speaks excellent English as well as Spanish, and without hesitation switches from one to the other, so there should not be a problem with ordering your dishes.  The menu is extensive, and provides a wide choice for the most demanding of palates.

I asked about facilities for the disabled client requiring easy access.  It was with pride that the proprietor showed me how they had most sympathetically provided for the physically challenged and I was really impressed with the thoughtfulness that had been employed in the whole design of the restaurant.  Perhaps someone who has needed to use these facilities could contact me and confirm or criticise how they were received and provided for?

For those with a GPS the restaurant is located at:-  36°46′11.09″N  4° 5′47.73″W

Pablo Iglesias (Urb. el Limonar), S/N
29700 Velez-Malaga, Málaga
Teléfono: 952 549 492

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This is a new restaurant that you should definitely put on your wish list of places worth visiting.  Excellent menu with an alternative menu for children.

Brilliant but unobtrusive service in a relaxing, beautifully decorated dining area. The wine list has been well chosen and the coffee is really good. Excellent facilities for the disabled diner in a wheel chair and the entrance to the restaurant has large sliding doors which eases entrance immensly.

An ideal destination for a family meal out or a celebration party.

You can find the restaurant at Calle Aceituneros, Señorio de Velez,
Bloque 2 Bajo, Velez Malaga, Malaga

Telf. 952 507 630

For those of you with GPS it is located at  36°46′14.60″N  4° 6′30.08″W

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I experienced one of the best lunches I’ve ever had in Spain today. My good friend, Tony, invited me to Meson La Terna restaurant in Velez Malaga. The exterior of the restarant is rather unassuming, i.e. standard and low profile, but clean and sleek looking, so on entering I was pleasantly taken aback by the picturesque traditional spanish interior decor, complete with 3 stuffed bulls’ heads decorating the dining room walls.  I was impressed with the real cotton linen tablecloth with matching serviettes, and other attention to detail. (I rarely re-enter an eating establishment that provides me with thin paper serviettes unless the food is impecable, but that rarely happens!).  We were immediately greeted by smiling faces – a rare occurence these days; the manager, the waitress and the chef came out to greet us. Read More…

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Previous to recently enjoying an evening meal in this restaurant, I could only personally recommend one other Chinese restaurant in this immediate vicinity; that one being in the nearby town of Torre del Mar. It was quite by chance that I came to dine here; the restaurant is on a corner of a main street surrounded by shops.

We were greeted with a smile and sat at a table of our choice. Inside the décor is Chinese, quite luxurious but not overbearing. The only complaint was the consistent background muzak of pan pipes, which after 2 and a half hours was starting to grate on my nerves!

The menu was overly-extensive – a book in its own right – so our party of three decided to settle on the Set Menu for 4 Persons at 54 Euros. This set menu comprised of seven different starters, including Dim Sum, Peking duck and  spare ribs. The restaurant manager then came over to our table to ask if we would like to have a break and wait 15 minutes or so for the main courses. I replied that I thought I had already eaten the main courses! What followed was a struggle in the fact that the starters had been ample enough. The main courses consisted of delicacies such as chicken in oyster sauce, beef in a rich dark sweet sauce and king prawns – all accompanied by platters of special fried rice and separate vegetables. All the food was served piping hot, and we were given a change of silver cutlery for each course.

The food, service and atmosphere were faultless. However, the house red wine and coffee were inferior. The deserts were of the pre-packed frozen variety when I had expected fresh fruit, and something more in keeping quality-wise to the rest of the meal.

We did have an enjoyable evening, but be warned that if you are going to eat here all the portions are on the bulky side so wear something lose around the waist!

I shall definitely be eating here again, and it’s certainly an ideal place for a special occasion such as a birthday party.

Access and parking is not a problem, the entire restaurant is clean, comfortable and well-lit, and the staff speak many languages.

(Note: the photos were taken with a Nokia Navigator mobile phone, and therefore do not do the food justice).

C/Camino Viejo de Malaga 6, 29700 Velez Malaga
Tel: 952 506 966

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