Moving To Andalusia

I do love a bit of Chinese! So discovering a new one is always good news, especially one with outside seating.
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February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Torre del Mar Restaurant: Gran Muralla (Chinese) | Category: Where (not) to eat | Leave a comment

A Chinese restaurant that isn’t called The Great Wall! So who might Dong Fang Cheng be? Is it simply the owner? Or a great Chinese man I have never heard of? Well, I googled Dong Fang Cheng, but if he’s a great man, I couldn’t find him. This is the first picture that came up: [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Tags: Chinese restaurant Torrox | Category: Where (not) to eat | Leave a comment

I have a thing about restaurant names. Why are all Indian restaurants in the world called Taj Mahal? And a LOT of Chinese restaurants The Great Wall? Is there nothing else in India or China?
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January 20th, 2010 | Tags: Indian Restaurant Torre del Mar | Category: Where (not) to eat | Leave a comment

Yes, yes, YES! Just when we were about to give up on eating out in La Alpujarra, we finally managed to score a table at vegetarian restaurant L´Atelier in the Alpujarran village of Mecina Fondales. We´d passed the restaurant a number of times and it was always closed. When I emailed last week for a [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: vegetarian restaurant alpujarra | Category: Pet friendly, Where (not) to eat | Comments (1)

Ferreirola in La Alpujarra is such a tiny, sleepy village it´s easy to walk through it without noticing all the stuff that´s, quietly, going on. I say walk, because there´s no way you can accidentally drive through Ferreirola. It´s quite a long, difficult way to get there and the road ends here. Rather romantic, I [...]

June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Ferreirola, La Alpujarra, Takashi Ishii | Category: Places to stay, Where (not) to eat | Leave a comment

After the rudeness we encountered at Hotel Viñuela, El Pantano was a welcome change! The waiters are very kind and dogs are allowed, albeit only on the balcony. The view of the wonderfully blue lake is much better here than at Hotel Viñuela as well!
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May 25th, 2009 | Tags: Restaurant el pantano Viñuela, restaurants Andalusia, where to eat Andalusia | Category: What´s going on in Andalusia, Where (not) to eat, Where to eat | Comments (5)