Atrio Cáceres — Restaurant in Cáceres

My wife and I booked the "Total Experience" package at Atrio which consisted of 2 nights stay in the hotel with breakfast, 2 gourmet meals, a casual meal, Champagne and ham and visits to the wine cellar and kitchen. We can sum up the experience in one word - amazing.||Firstly, the hotel. From arrival to departure the service we received was impeccable. All the staff were attentive, friendly and helpful. We had booked a junior deluxe suite and the room was superb. Large, airy, with high quality furnishings and fittings in both the bedroom and the bathroom. ||After our arrival we had our Champagne and wonderful local ham sitting under a shady tree in the beautiful courtyard garden. It was magic!||During the afternoon we made use of the rooftop terrace where there are two plunge pools. The terrace is furnished again with high class products and with soft jazzour "casual playing in the background was so so relaxing. We phoned down for a pot of tea which arrived on a silver tray within 10 minutes.||Our first dinner as a tasting menu celebrating the Iberian pig, consisting of 18 elements. We ran out of superlatives trying to describe our feelings. Every dish was a work of art on the plate, and the flavours just left our palates zinging.||Next day we had our casual lunch in the Torre D Sande restaurant in the building next door, owned by the same group. It was 5 dish meal, with each dish larger than a tapas, but smaller than a "media racion" and was just right. I think the corquettas there were the best we have ever had.||Dinner that night was another tasting menu, again of 18 elements, but totally different from the previous night. Again every dish was wonderful.||During our stay, the kitchen was being run by the Sous Chef Alberto Montes and he and the team of chefs are all masters of their art. The dining room was run by Alba Seruan who was fabulous, clearly describing what was being served to us and how best to eat it.||One of the things that really impressed me was that very quickly it was recognised that I was left handed and from that moment my cutlery was set out accordingly. It was an attention to detail I had never experienced before in quality reaturants around the world.||Did we have any quibbles? Well, we felt that the visit to the amazing wine cellar was rather rushed and we would have liked more time to talk to the sommelier about the suparb collection of wines. Also, the set breakfast we thought a little disappointing.||Having said that, it was an experience that we will remember for a long,...

My wife and I booked the "Total Experience" package at Atrio which consisted of 2 nights stay in the hotel with breakfast, 2 gourmet meals, a casual meal, Champagne and ham and visits to the wine cellar and kitchen. We can sum up the experience in one word - amazing.||Firstly, the hotel. From arrival to departure the service we received was impeccable. All the staff were attentive, friendly and helpful. We had booked a junior deluxe suite and the room was superb. Large, airy, with high quality furnishings and fittings in both the bedroom and the bathroom. ||After our arrival we had our Champagne and wonderful local ham sitting under a shady tree in the beautiful courtyard garden. It was magic!||During the afternoon we made use of the rooftop terrace where there are two plunge pools. The terrace is furnished again with high class products and with soft jazzour "casual playing in the background was so so relaxing. We phoned down for a pot of tea which arrived on a silver tray within 10 minutes.||Our first dinner as a tasting menu celebrating the Iberian pig, consisting of 18 elements. We ran out of superlatives trying to describe our feelings. Every dish was a work of art on the plate, and the flavours just left our palates zinging.||Next day we had our casual lunch in the Torre D Sande restaurant in the building next door, owned by the same group. It was 5 dish meal, with each dish larger than a tapas, but smaller than a "media racion" and was just right. I think the corquettas there were the best we have ever had.||Dinner that night was another tasting menu, again of 18 elements, but totally different from the previous night. Again every dish was wonderful.||During our stay, the kitchen was being run by the Sous Chef Alberto Montes and he and the team of chefs are all masters of their art. The dining room was run by Alba Seruan who was fabulous, clearly describing what was being served to us and how best to eat it.||One of the things that really impressed me was that very quickly it was recognised that I was left handed and from that moment my cutlery was set out accordingly. It was an attention to detail I had never experienced before in quality reaturants around the world.||Did we have any quibbles? Well, we felt that the visit to the amazing wine cellar was rather rushed and we would have liked more time to talk to the sommelier about the suparb collection of wines. Also, the set breakfast we thought a little disappointing.||Having said that, it was an experience that we will remember for a long,...

I don't like to give harsh reviews. In fact to be honest the service was so good and the people so kind that I'm giving two stars where I probably wouldn't do that. I really enjoy fine dining and we are always looking for places to go and have an interesting meal, and this place I've been recommended to us by member of our family, and so we went as part of our romantic getaway with myself and my wife.||It's a lovely space and it's in a lovely location and we had high expectations. We ordered the tasting menu which is approximately 10 items served over about a 90 minute period. I've had a lot of great tasting menus and was excited to try this.||One of the things that has happened in modern cuisine, especially fine dining, is this weird approach to deconstruction and molecular gastronomy, and I think that that's a hit or miss depending on where you go and who's the chef. This tasting menu was a series of small bites of food and under better circumstances could be an incredible experience. (I think of Jose Andres restaurant in Los Angeles, the bazar. One of the best meals I've ever had in my life. Unfortunately this was not the case here.)||To be honest the biggest problem for me was that all of the food was either over-salted or bland and tasteless. In this kind of tasting menu each course has to have its own unique flavor profile, mouth feel, transition to the next item and overall just a sense of each food is a unique experience. Nothing stood out. The flavor profiles were very neutral or extremely salty and impossible to taste. There was a crab soup that was so salty that it practically burned my tongue and made it difficult to taste foods that were served afterwards. Also, while I understand that this kind of food requires a specific type of preparation, the pacing was extremely slow and nothing really jumped out as needing that much preparation because it seemed like it was all pre-prepared? And while I definitely felt heavy at the end, I wasn't satisfied full, rather it was just eating too much food that I didn't like particularly. ||At the end of the meal I not only did not feel satisfied but I felt frustrated because it was fairly expensive. ||At some point we might go back to give it another chance but I don't see that happening in the...