Restaurante El cerdo que ríe — Restaurant in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

My husband and I used to be the regular customers in this restaurant, we used to dine at lest twice a week sometimes even 4 times a week, once we even brought 10of our friends. We did not mind that much about their poor service, such like they forgot to bring our salt n pepper and forgot to bring more chips as we requested twice, as long they do amazing foods we are totally cool! BUTTTTT, recently they changed their menu, our favourite dishes are gone and put the price up! Twice, twice we thought we should not eat there again as the bad service and not so good foods anymore. But we think we should be kind and give them another chance, ok, the third time, I swear it will be our very last time to step our foot near this restaurant, we have been served a very salty cream sauce with smoked salty hake! That was a terrible combination, we love the fish itself, but we literally have to wash off the sauce in order to taste the fish. Before we paid we have kindly told the sauce is too salty, they, all three of them, one waiter, two waitresses were all giving us a filthy look and just walked away with our money! €64, why we had to pay for...

I'm sorry to say this because the service was nice and polite, but it's very low quality food. We were a group of 14 people so we tried everything, from Tapas as starters (padron peppers, croquetas, prawns, tortilla ecc), different steaks, fish, and it's a big No. Tasteless, no fresh, and also missed salt which wasn't even on the table.

The menu is huge, it's not physically possible to keep all those different ingredients fresh, and it is not well presented at all.

I gave 2 stars to the ambient as well because we stayed inside and it's like a basement, with no windows, kitchen hidden from clients, with a big TV playing music from youtube. The ambient would be better with warm weather when you can...

A place of contrasts: great sea-side view, delicious well-prepared aubergine tempura with molasses sauce. The menu is full of Chinese-style dishes. I ordered number 70 fried short ribs with sautéed potatoes in a sauce. I received number 69 barbecue long ribs with French fries. The sauce had a 5 spice flavor with sesame seeds. The waitress said it was the same thing. The waiter said it was to attract customers. The baby fried squid was our 3rd dish. We had to ask 3 times for a 2nd bottle of water and extra lemon. This is tourist restaurant on the promenade....