Restaurante La Viña de Rueda — Restaurant in Rueda

Rueda urbanisation exists solely for selling wine. A scruffy township on either side of a wide main road. The Saturday before Christmas and our accommodation only serves lunch and we had missed that so were sent here. Very much a transport cafe next to a petrol station and it seemed to be the only place in town on a Saturday night as evidenced by the crowd of young men drinking and smoking in the covered conservatory whose clouds of smoke one had to brave to gain access to the diner.| A few cloth covered tables were free at 2030 hrs when dinner opened service. Choices were limited to hamburgers boccsdillos and salads although M had a fried chicken escalope with a fried egg on top and salad. Potatoes, chips or brava were extra. I settled for a Wagyu burger(€8) and patatas bravas (€2.50) and a beer| The burger was good meat but without the trimmings of a US style burger. Ms chicken was dry, and salad unexciting.| Stomach filler,...

Rueda urbanisation exists solely for selling wine. A scruffy township on either side of a wide main road. The Saturday before Christmas and our accommodation only serves lunch and we had missed that so were sent here. Very much a transport cafe next to a petrol station and it seemed to be the only place in town on a Saturday night as evidenced by the crowd of young men drinking and smoking in the covered conservatory whose clouds of smoke one had to brave to gain access to the diner.| A few cloth covered tables were free at 2030 hrs when dinner opened service. Choices were limited to hamburgers boccsdillos and salads although M had a fried chicken escalope with a fried egg on top and salad. Potatoes, chips or brava were extra. I settled for a Wagyu burger(€8) and patatas bravas (€2.50) and a beer| The burger was good meat but without the trimmings of a US style burger. Ms chicken was dry, and salad unexciting.| Stomach filler,...

This place felt like a saloon in the Wild West. Not that its decor was at all nostalgic, but it is located in a "one-horse town" and its ground floor consists of a food shop and a rather boisterous bar. The clientele is almost entirely local men--they seemed unaccustomed to foreign tourists, The noise from the bar penetrates to the rooms; it subsides by midnight, but starts up again around 7 a.m. Almost non-existent breakfast, but very reasonable price. The room was comfortable and reasonably pleasant apart from the creaky floor--it even had a private balcony...