Restaurante Ambigú — Restaurant in San Sebastián de la Gomera

With what else is on offer this restaurant cuts above many of the rest. However you really need to like cheese and sauces. We tried 5 sharing dishes and none of them blew our minds away. Gambas in a cheese sauce was experimental but didn’t work. Fried cheese balls (found locally usually delicious) seemed to be cooked with nigella seeds and left a funny taste in the mouth. On a plus the staff were super friendly and we may have done better choosing...

We had a fabulous paella today. You have to order in advance (we called in yesterday lunchtime on the off chance to be told it couldn’t be done until today - so if you’re a paella fan try to book 24hrs before) but it is so worth it! Whenever in Spain we always find somewhere with good paella and this rivalled our previous favourite on Fuerteventura, and that was excellent!The service was excellent and it made our final lunchtime on La Gomera...

I appreciate this restaurant is trying to bridge the gap to a more fine dining style cooking; it’s a shame the cook is so obviously not up for the job. Awkward atmosphere. Order got mixed up. Severely lacking in vegetarian options. Finally, they inflate their menu: five dishes where not available upon ordering. Positive points: they were polite, spoke English and the meat and fish dishes were a lot better than the...