Restaurante Quo Vadis — Restaurant in Comillas

Disappointing experience. I ordered the vegetarian pizza. It arrived in a timely manner but the dough was extremely tough. It required much effort to cut through with a steak knife! It was so hard, you could hold the slice up and the pizza stood completely straight - hard as a plank! Then the centre was dripping in liquid.

My amazing London local authentic Italian had previously said the pizza I had in Italy, (cos I also shared my experience of the rock hard pizza base). He said that happens when the dough hasn't been allowed to sit(rest)for the required time which results in the dough being tough! So, maybe this place also rushes the process.

Anyways, I was told I couldn't have substitute topping as I didn't want lettuce(!) On my pizza. I've had rocket leaves but never lettuce as a topping. And asked if I could have mushrooms instead. Waiter said "no" substitutes. Not his rules but the boss'!!

I was like ok. Remove the lettuce and charge me for the mushrooms. So when the bill arrived, I was surprised I wasn't charged for the...

Here's why I love this place: 1) it was 3:00 PM everything was closed or some bars were open with some same-ol-same-ol Pinchos. 2)the tropical salad was excellent: pineapple, apple, shrimp, lettuce, olives, and the perfect olive oil dressing. 3) the Spaghetti sauce was also excellent, 4) the cheese cake was light, all so good. My wife & I were happy not to deal with Pinchos or the perrigrino menu. 5) after walking for 6 hours it was wonderful being tended by someone positive and uplifting. Good service. For the perrigrino looking for something open and a large menu to choose...

Something was a bit off about this place. It was eerily quiet for much of the evening service, a funny smell in the (empty) room .. food was very lacking in flavour, pizza too perfectly round to be home made, and was doughy. Lasagna was tasteless, as was Carbonara. Spaghetti Bolognese was the only nice dish. Portions are huge, some might like this if they don't care about quality. Long wait to pay the bill. Also watched the lady at the front desk cutting up customers' pizzas with her bare hands all over them ...Just can't...