La Rocina - Full Menu

Pretty basic restaurant much frequented by local people and sensibly priced food and wine. Not exactly haute cuisine, but the pork and mustard we had was excell... read more Pretty basic restaurant much frequented by local people and sensibly priced food and wine. Not exactly haute cuisine, but the pork and mustard we had was excellent, the meat very good indeed. Not fancy, but very nice.

Recommended by a local this restaurant did not live up to expectations. Most items on the large and extensive menu were either not available or available only b... read more Recommended by a local this restaurant did not live up to expectations. Most items on the large and extensive menu were either not available or available only by pre-ordering. My wife and I were embarrassed by our lack of Spanish but every waiter in the world knows that vino is wine, so why were we brought two glasses of beer! We both had the spicy soup made from pork broth but this tasted more like the washing up water from the saucepan the pork was cooked in. My Iberian pork stew was OK, but I can do a lot better at home. My wife having been put off by the non availability of everything, along with the hovering waiter, wasn't going to have anything else but I persuaded her to go for the plate of large gambas. We were warned that all the best fish and seafood had been sent to the fiesta in Seville but these were the smallest and bland shrimp I haver seen and the bed of lettuce they were served on was so salty it was uneatable. We could not get away fast enough and paying 51€ for that was just short of scandalous.