Cafetería La Caldera De Tirajana — Restaurant in Santa Lucía de Tirajana

Only looking up this place for the first time and seeing the reviews. I can only judge this shop on personal experience. Twice we had eaten locally and were looking for an ice-cream to eat in the sun. We saw an extremely attractive exterior with interesting products inside. Most importantly, we met a wonderful lady which I presume was mamá Conchita. When cashing out our ice creams and drinks, she calculated the total using pen and paper. I immediately understood that only cash was going to work here. I told the lady that her store was beautiful. She understandably only spoke Spanish but wrote on her notepad that she was 84. She explained that she had children and grandchildren but that papa was finito 🥹. She was so sweet and I sometimes think people are mixing up tradition with modern convenience. I will return every time if it means I can say hola to mamá Conchita. We could have spent all day chatting to that...

One of the few places open in St. Lucia on a Monday. For home cooked food we doubt you could do better. I had the mildly curried rabbit stew and my husband had the goat stew. The portions were decent sizes and served with proper chips, not from a packet, crispy outside soft inside like chips should be. The restaurant, bar is a basic unpretentious cafe there for locals to come and have a drink as well as passing tourists. It serves Canarian dishes for around 10 to 14 euro and other more touristy choices too for very slightly more. The owner served us with great jollity and friendliness and no English but her menu is written in several languages. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal. There is parking by the restaurant on the street. You can eat inside which looked clean but not very inviting or on their terrace which was spacious enough and comfortable but sadly without views of the...

La comida es casera y de muy buena calidad. Probamos unos calamares saharianos espectaculares, las papas eran una delicia... La única pega que le pondría a la comida es que la carne de cochino que pedimos estaba algo seca, como si estuviera hecha al horno más que frita, pero de sabor estaba buenísima.

Dicho esto, tengo que destacar lo nefasto que fue el servicio y la organización del local. Constantemente nos traían cosas que no habíamos pedido, las que pedíamos se olvidaban o nos lo traían todo junto sin que tuviéramos espacio alguno en la mesa. Y el colmo es que estuve tentado al "simpa" después de estar esperando por la 40 minutos y haberla pedido 3 veces. Y para colmo, te cobran lo que quieren y sin detallar... Simplemente repetían como concepto "departamento 1".

He leído en otros comentarios que el personal es muy amable y demás... Pues no sé si a ese personal lo tienen en ERTE o libra los domingos y ahora tienen una plantilla de bajo coste, la cuestión es que nuestra experiencia fue decepcionante a pesar de lo satisfechos que nos dejó la comida. La razón por la que fuimos allí es porque siempre hemos comido muy bien y hemos recibido muy bien trato cada vez que hemos ido a pasar algún domingo a Santa Lucía, pero lamentablemente nos encontramos que el bar que frecuentábamos estaba cerrado y traspasaban el local... Así que lo único que había abierto era la Caldera y decidimos darle la oportunidad, lo cual fue un...