Description: We frequented this large restaurant a couple of times. It’s situated on the hill leaving the harbour and heading for Lanzarote’s up-market shopping centre. They don’t take pre-bookings and in all fairness we never had to wait for more than 15 minutes (even when there were eight of us) for a table. The bar area, festooned with maturing hams, is not the most comfortable places to relax for a preprandial drink as there is limited seating (all at the bar) and it’s on the main thoroughfare from the main road into the restaurant itself.
However, once seated you can be rest assured that you’ll have the almost undivided attention of the staff. Now irony’s a bit tough to inject into a review, but that was ironic! Despite the fact that the waiters wear efficient looking headsets enabling them to communicate with the chef and other staff members, they seem to run round like headless chickens.
On our second visit (the food had been superb on the first occasion) three of us wanted to order the shoulder of lamb and my initial enquiries at the “meat bar” had indicated that there were only seven left. As soon as we got to the table we accosted the waiter and told him that’s what we wanted – he nodded wisely and said he’s reserve them. We settled back to ponder the menu and make our decisions.
The Cascada Puerto has an amazing selection of starters, perhaps a bewildering number, and I decided on Prawns and baby Eels in hot chilli and garlic oil.
The wine, a 2003 Coronas (85% Tempranillo and 15% Sauvignon) had become one of our favourite reds and with a bit of help from our wine tasting friends we were almost able to spot the delicate floral aromas with a hint of ripe blackberry and strawberry, against a background of oak and truffles. Pretentious? Not really just a very pleasant wine that compliments most meals admirably.
In contrast to the first night the shoulder of lamb was over-cooked and therefore quite disappointing, but I guess we’d made the mistake of not requesting it to be cooked medium rare. However, my mate had a “lucky escape” as , despite their promises to save three shoulders, they’d only managed to secure two. He opted for the steak, which was cooked to perfection.
Despite its shortcomings the ambiance and buzz of la Cascada Puerto makes a restaurant to recommend, but don’t necessarily expect real swish service. The food will be freshly cooked (make sure you specify how you want the meat prepared otherwise it defaults to “well-done”) and in typical Spanish fashion you will not feel rushed. Indeed getting the bill at the end of the meal is a work of art in itself! Not the cheapest meal in town but as the meat comes straight from the fridge you’ll be guaranteed no pre-cooked meals here.
Conveniently there’s a taxi rank just outside so that makes life real easy.
Give it a go!
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