Meson Criollo — Restaurant in Cádiz

Some good reviews seen but be careful what you order. The dishes we had were the most tasteless we'd had on our 10 day tour of Spain. I'm not sure how Calamari can be so bland and anemic or a prawn and avocado salad so uninspiring in taste. Even the table olives left you not wanting a second. To be told by the waiter that none of the fish on the menu was fresh but you can have fresh sea bass just seemed over persuasive, when pressed on the price several times (as it wasn't on the menu) it turned out to be the most expensive thing you could have, no wonder the rest of the fish was advised as not fresh, what a great way to sell fish?! El Faro restaurant just around the corner saved the evening, like night and day in comparison of taste, ambiance and flavours. If you have time and money to waste on food you'd be easily able to produce in a better way yourself then fine, hopefully other menu items were better, no no way could I recommend trying them...

If I could give this restaurant 0 stars, I would. In the last 30 years, I haven't had worse food in a restaurant. We ordered grilled prawns, a fish soup with clams and cooked vegetables. The vegetables were FROZEN, then cooked to death and not even seasoned with salt! I can eat almost anything, but this was so disgusting, that I tried one bite and that was it. The grilled prawns was the only dish which was edible, but still not seasoned well enough andthe prawns were served on raw unseasoned cabbage leaves which made no sense whatsoever. The fish soup was way to salty and the fish, oh my God, the fish was the worst fish I have ever had in my life. You couldn't chew it at all and the fish skin was slimy, chewy and had the consistency of rubber. On top of that, the recommended red wine was also really bad. All that costed 60 EUR. Even though we complained, the waiter didn't want to adjust the bill according. Worse food...

And again: never go to touristic places where they have the menu in more than two languages... It was very crowded, so we thought it might be a good restaurant. But in fact the quality of the food was very low. We hat fish filets (tuna and swordfish) , wich were absoluteley tasteless. Just cooked instead of grilled as was written on the menu and without any seasoning. One of the filets was not even properly cooked, so ot was half raw. It was served with a tiny bit of salad (also without any seasoning and tasteless). The shrimp tortillas tasted like old fat :/ and was served before the rest of the food although it was declared as main course on the menu, so we had to eat seperately. Sangria was nice though and the service was friendly. I would not recommend this place because of the very expencive prices compared to verly low quality...