Solar de Tejeda - Córdoba

This restaurant has a barbecue on the street between it and the church. When they cook, the smell is very obvious from San Martín square. The meat looked delicious, unfortunately I was a bit disappointed. Some undercooked, most overcooked, quite fat overall. For the price I thought was expensive, there are better restaurants nearby. One last negative, due to its proximity to the church, it is better to eat inside, as every beggar and street vendor interrupt your meal when you eat outside.

I ordered the chicken steak (which was actually crooked chicken), and although the menu said it comes with potatoes, I had to order a page and pay extra. The chicken steak was decent. However, the service was not so great that the waited offered me free bread, but no side plate or butter/dips this was a little strange. I had to ask him three times before he finally gave it to me. The atmosphere at the place is great seemed to sit like a great place and watch people. The service does not make the place so pleasant.

We didn't want to wait till 8:00 for dinner. Solar de Tejar was opened all day by our hotel, so we went there for dinner. We ordered a steak with mushroom sauce. The steak was cooked to our mood, medium rarely was delicious. The mushroom paste was terrible. We couldn't eat that much. The pasta's noodles were muddy. The mushrooms were skillful, the sauce had absolutely no taste, with the exception of an excessive green paprika taste I don't like, both literally figurative. The sauce was accepted to be a cream sauce, but she didn't look like it was cream. More like milk thickened with corn starch. The place is huge, hardly anyone. Just a few locals who have coffee pastries. The service was good, but since there were not many people, it should have been. The bathrooms had toilet paper, soap paper towels, some of the public bathrooms not. We wouldn't recommend this place for dinner.

We are adventurous diners and went with the proposal of our waiter. The Bife de Chorizo and Cabrito de Quilino. The Bife was good, and although the goat was delicious enough, there was very little meat on it. It was okay, glad we tried, but I wouldn't order it again.

This restaurant is right across the street from Cordoba Cathedral (Street 27 runs on one side of the Cathedral), set back from the street along a quaint arched passageway. We happened upon it the day before we had lunch there, and it was packed, mostly with locals. We returned the next day and had a very late lunch, at the time most Cordobeses were having their merienda (afternoon coffee/tea). There was no problem with this. I ordered an omelette with cheese and tomato, and creamed spinach on the side (I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian). Both dishes were excellent. My companion ordered a rib steak and he was very pleased with his selection. We shared a half bottle of Argentine Malbec. The portions were so large that we did not have room for dessert. Service is professional but this is not a place to go if you are rushed for time. Sit by a window, relax and absorb the local color while you wait for the food to be cooked to order for you.