A Cantina Pulpería Luis — Restaurant in Sarria

Walk into this well-known restaurant where locals eat and bring their friends. There is communal seating, a short kit of optional plates and desserts. Wines and beer are available and the bread is delicious. The most interesting part is that you get to watch the owner, Luis, do his thing he cooks entire giant octopus to perfection then whips out his cooking shears and cuts it up. Each plate is perfection. The taste, spices and the octopus cooked to it's perfect point make this a place to come back to when in Sarria. I also loved the queso con membrillo (cheese and a gelatine like parte) that together are perfection! A glass of albariño tops off an amazing lunch. Therr are other options for first plates, but people come for the octopus! All for 17€. No...

They are way understaffed (the servers were literally sprinting around to juggle orders), which makes for a tense/stressful dining experience, but the food is delicious. Pulpo is piping fresh and full of flavor. The bread is also delicious (though they charge extra for the bread service). You’ll have to aggressively wave them down for everything - to order, ask for utensils, make sure your beer actually arrives, etc. Your best bet is to spit out your order immediately when they sit you down lol. We never even saw the menu because it was never offered/we kept seeing tables being served before us, so we just asked for the pulpo, and that was that. Ventilation is not great inside either. But I guess if you want amazing pulpo, this is the...

This is a good restaurant, specializing in a very limited set of the dishes, which are typical of the Galicia region. Above all, the pulpo á feira, in Gallego, or pulpo a la gallega, in Spanish (Galician-style octopus), is a traditional dish of Spanish cuisine, typical of Galicia. People flock to the pulperia, both locals and tourists, especially to taste this very nice preparation of the octopus. The service is a little hasty (even with only one paper placemat for every two place settings), but effective. The waitresses are kind and attentive, almost too much, as they give the impression of being in a hurry to free up the tables for...