Restaurante La Aldea — Restaurant in Comillas

We had dinner at a restaurant called Kimera, which we were told it’s the same restaurant as Aldea.

We ordered a T-bone steak. It was cooked in the kitchen to medium rare, brought to the table, then re-cooked on a heated stone then served to the plate - at this point, it’s almost fully cooked. The meat was extremely fatty. The heated stone only stays hot for a short while and needs to be changed every 10-15min, which was inconvenient. Dish came with some fries.

Menu was over priced and had poor availability: steak was 1.2kg at €90, many items were not available including tomato salad, croquettes - which were quite shocking for a Spanish restaurant. The English menu looked completely different to Spanish version.

Maybe we just had the misfortune to order the wrong item, compared to many other reviews, or maybe this is a different restaurant.

Overall was an okay experience, but quite average to the...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ORDER. La Aldea seem to know how to prepare traditional food: both the zamburiñas and the arroz-con-leche cake were pretty good. However, the two more creative dishes that we had didn't make much sense. First, the salmon-and-avocado timbale looked a bit like a salmon tartare, but the waiter recommended us to mix it with the accompanying salad—which transformed it into an undefinable mishmash with a penetrating honey-mustard taste. Second, we had prawns with a mango curry, Chinese noodles and Basmati rice. The prawns were well cooked, but the combination with the other ingredients tasted like something you could get at any Indian place. Given these deficiencies, it's unclear to me why La Aldea is consistently ranked among the best restaurants...

Esto es para venir con mucho tiempo (y sin problemas de gastar algo mas). Lo cuento con detalles: Hasta las 13:30 no te puedes sentar. Tiens que llegar antes, pedir la vez y segun van llegando los clientes nos vamos quedando de pie en la calle, en orden de llegada te dejan sentarte (escoger mesa) y pedir Nosotros eramos los segundos. Hasta las 13:55 no trajeron el primer entrante: timbal de salmon con aguacate, el sabor espectacular y la cantidad...pues eso, un entrante A las 14:10 el segundo entrante: las famosas Zamburiñas. Yo lo pedi pq todos lo recomendaban. No sabia ni lo que eran. Estan ricas. Mando la foto. 16€ por 10 unidades...se me hace caro pero rico El plato de comida comida lo trajeron a las 14:25. Bistec. Hombre...llamarle bistec es ser generoso era un filete normal y corriente y no muy grande... Mando foto d todo (la foto del bitec es la mitad d lo que trajeron

La camarera es simpatica solo si le dices que estas bien, si pones cara de "llevo media hora esperando a otro plato" aunque no abras la boca ya se le quita la simpatia

Y mientras viendo a los del restaurante de al lado hinchandose a comer, gastando 30 euros menos que tu, y acabando antes, pero tu no te has sentado ahi pq las reseñas de este sitio se supone que son mejores. La mesa de al lado que tenia el numero 8 cuando pedimos la vez en el incio los clientes, aun siguen con los entrantes

El postre a las 14:35. Cantidad normal. Precio mas de lo normal. Sabor rico (si esta a tope de azucar es imposible que este malo...)

Normalmente yo para comer necesito 2 coca-colas. Pero aqui he comido tan poco que no me he terminado ni la primera Al traer la cuenta me han cobrado el cesto de pan que no lo hemos tocado. Hemos tenido que pedir que nos lo quiten

La wifi va muy mal

Yo no volveria, ni por precio ni por tiempo de espera, ni por cantidad....