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We come here for its Arroz con Bogavante that my daughter loves and the Lubina a la Sal that is well prepared and always available. The place offers traditional, hearty and good quality food in generous portions with a focus on pricey, high-end dishes that you will not typically find in a restaurant happy to serve you a menu del día (so please, don 't even think to ask for a menú del día or somebody might get very upset). Everything traditionally great and primordial about Spanish food is here and so is everything that is missing. Uneven cooking that is saved by the ingredients quality, noisy environment that thwarts any conversation unless played at concert-level volumes and impersonal poor service only redeemed by the fact you can feel waiters are stretching themselves. For some unexplainable reason there is a permanent flux from tables to kitchen to bodega to who-knows-where. Orders are taken in a hurry with the waiter alternatively talking to you, yelling to please wait to somebody three tables away, jotting furiously at his notepad, eyeing a kid rolling on the floor and muttering something about the cook. Paying and leaving is a feat. Show your card and ask for the bill immediately after completing your order or risk being stranded for minutes on-end while waiters move around, discuss cigars or wines with their regular patrons or simply beg their excused after having forgotten you for the n-th time. The experience feels expensive and exhausting. Hopefully, my daughters craving for Arroz con Bogavante can be postponed to a year still to be named in the future