El Mesón Do Pulpo — Restaurant in Santiago de Compostela

It has been almost a month since I have last been (and first discovered) the restaurant and I have always wanted to write a review for them because they deserve it! I am crazy for almejas and I think it was the best almejas I have eaten in the whole Galicia! So much that we went there again the other day to eat a second reound :D I speak very little Spanish but even with my language barrier, people (and the owner) were very friendly, it felt like eating at home. This place will surely be one of my reasons to go back to A Coruna

(Also, I do not understand why people complain about the bread pricing, it is very common here in Spain where they give you a plate of bread but you are always free to say that you don't want it :D Which means, you would not be charged for that. Considering the fact that how other things are free - tapas, cup of water etc., I think it is not fair to accuse a restaurant just because they are charging...

Unfortunately I didn’t have the pulpo a feira on the occasion I visited, but I had the “oxtail stew”. This was nice, but it was described on the menu simply as “rabo“ or “oxtail stew”. When it arrived, it came on a bed of chips and with very little gravy. It was tasty, but it started to get a little dry and greasy quite quickly. I also had to add a little more salt and sauce to the chips. Be prepared to use Spanish, because the servers I spoke to didn’t seem to understand English. Perhaps because of the language difficulty, “what the oxtail came with” was not properly communicated to me. Other than this, I had the barrel wine (a Ribeiro) and a coffee liquer. The cheesecake was pretty good (albeit a little pricey at 4euro) though. The crowd seemed local and the vibe was...

I do not understand at all how the reviews for this restaurant are so good and how some have describes it as "must try" it is extremely far from a "must try".

Firstly the service while quick was very bland, it felt like the waiters had 0 Interest in showing any sort of friendly demeanor to me or my partner.

Secondly the food, it was... Quite bad. The chips where fine although that is hard to mess up and the calamares was incredibly rubbery and tough and like something id cook at home when hungover and certainly not restaraunt grade.

Mandy we came at the wrong time but I find it incredibly hard to believe that this restaurant is ever any better than what me or my partner...