Marisquería Riveiriña — Restaurant in A Guarda

We visited this place in the corniche of La Guardia first time 6y ago. We returned there recently during our trip in the north of Portugal and Galicia. We love the seafood and shellfish of Galicia and this place is in high position in our consideration, serving the best seafood you can taste, not comparable to any other places we know around the world, except also in Portugal and Spain. In our last visit, we took the typical oysters of Galicia, flat but meaty and tasty, the large local crab (with spikes, much more delicious than the french crab), freshly boiled from the tank, cigalas a kind of lagostinos, and to finish the grilled zamborinas (scallops in their shell grilled with butter and garlic). All this was irrigated by a generous amount of albariño rias Baja's. In the next day we were there again, for a menu with slight variations on the same theme! We love it. Price wise, consider between 50 to 100 euros per person, depending on...

The service is professional and brisk at the popular Riveirina Restaurant and we were looking forward to a feast of seafood, having ordered a platter. We made our order and it came almost immediately which was not a very good sign as one suspects it has been sitting there ready to go rather than being put together after the order. The platter was generous as you can see from the photograph but the scallops were over-cooked and stuck to their shells. The prawns were also overcooked and the clams in a sauce, had an odd, bitter after-taste. The other items were good. We were given mayonnaise in a carton, I just find that lacks style and love. In the end, I don't want my seafood over-cooked and it's as simple as that. It is the first rule of seafood cookery not to overcook fish so that is why I only give one star. The staff are friendly and the ambiance...

Siempre que vuelvo a mi tierra, una comida/ cenac en restaurante Riveiriña, caía. Además siempre lo he recomendado a mis amigos no-gallegos que visitaban el Monte Santa Tecla: "bajad a A Guarda a comer en el Riveiriña!". He vuelto este verano, después de unos dos años. LO PEOR, qué decepción... Pedimos percebes, (para mi son la joya del marisco) soy una loca de los percebes desde que era pequeña, el sabor genuino a mar, faciles incluso de cocer, sólo con agua del mar que en cuanto hierve se echan, vuelve a hervir y se sacan, facilisimo. En casa de mis padres siempre hay cuándo los visito, conocen a una experta percebeira de toda la vida y siempre son de gran calidad. Digo todo ésto para que se entienda la cara de pasmo que se me quedó cuándo al probarlos y comprobar que no sabían a NADA, se acerca el camarero a preguntar, se lo digo, me contesta ambiguamente: " pues son de por aquí". Viendo que dejamos la bandeja sin seguir comiendo (obviamente), sale la cocinera/dueña y me dice que ella los ha probado y que lo que están es SOSOS! Que lo arregla volviéndolos a meter en el agua echándoles mas sal!!! Mi cara de pasmada épica... Le repito que "no saben a NADA, que no tiene nada que ver la sal y que desde luego recocer percebes no es modo de hacer...) Conclusión: debió vernos con aspecto de turistas ignorantes y optó por TIMARNOS. Visto lo visto supe claramente que esos percebes acabarían recocidos para servir (y cobrar) en la mesa de otros que ellos catalogarán como "pardillos", así que pedí que los metieran en un recipiente para llevármelos... Y nos fuimos, ni peixe ni nada mas. Al volver a casa ya comimos... JAMÁS volveré a recomendar el...