Bodega el Parral — Restaurant in Arona

Maybe it was my choices, but i was disappointed....Ive lived for over 30 years in Andalucia so maybe that spoilt me. The pollo al ajillo was tasteless..the papas bravas were covered in a spicy mayonnaise, when I specifically asked it was a spicy tomato sauce or mayonnaise.....The waitress saw that i barely touched it ,and i explained why...but she never offered to change it... The pimiento de piquillo was the only nice thing...I don't know what the cover charge was for the bread and 2 more varieties of mayonnaise based things...alioli and lime and curry flavours...neither of which I wanted...Then I received a chupito of something that tasted like undiluted Ribena on the house...I was hoping it might be paxaran or something like that....I'm sorry but I found the atmosphere bland too..tailored to British tourists with English music.... It looks the part.....but that's about...

Away on holiday with the wife and she wanted to try some real tapas (I lived in Spain for a number of years previously) so we had been recommended this place. The menu is in all languages and so not a problem to order, I speak Spanish but I am not sure that they would have a full description of food ingredients in English if someone has any allergies. It’s very traditional and nice and they are a really child friendly couple, the chef is really skilled, he was cleaning about five kilo of prawns, so although it was empty in the day when we were there, I guess he is nuts busy at night! There are a few Canarian specialities and we tried the local Morcilla and it was very different to the Adaluz versions I favoured in Spain, very sweet and yummy! Cool inside and took me back to time in Malaga City away from the Brits and...

Some of the tapas were excellent, and surprisingly substantial: rabbit, sausage, canarian blood sausage were all unbelievable value for money. Others were less impressive, in particular the green pepers were too large and full of seeds. They do have a cover charge (I think 3.20 per person, which includes bread, butter and some gaspacho), and drinks are on the expensive side. A glass of house wine was 2.50 on the menu, but I was charged 3.20. So all in all close to 30 eur for 6 tapas, one glass of wine, one soft drink and a bottle of water (2 people). We felt a bit rushed by an otherwise very friendly host, even though there was at least 20 min till closing by the time...