As the bar got busier plates of hot Pintxos came out. Mushrooms, pork fillet, salt cod prawns, loads of garlic and olive oil everywhere. Great fun and after 3 beers and 6 or 7 pintxos each the bill came in at a bargain €22.
Also tried Churros one morning at Choclatier Ramon - great crispy Churros and sweet thick chocolate. Excellent
We visited Fuengirola several times following the great Majumdar’s lead. Meson La Pecha soon became a favourite hangout. A small bar full of locals, the walls racked with wine. A small grill behind the bar was the only cooking instrument required as they knocked out great pork kebabs, slices of suckling pig, solomillo de cerdo (pork fillet cooked very pink and very good indeed). Great Iberico de Bellato in here, sliced with a little more care than the Serrano. The food wasn’t everything in here, it was just an entertaining place to spend the evening. Pepe cooking, cigarette in mouth. Trying to get a bottle of wine here was an interesting experience. Upon choosing a Marques du Murrietta on the wall we were told “No Good” and he moved towards the fridge and got a me bottle (I can’t remember which) at half the price. The next bottle we chose we were told “Too expensive” and gave us another perfectly acceptable bottle at less than half the price. A couple of nights later, tried to order a Grand Reserve of something or other (sorry to sound so flippant). By now we had learned that he would only serve wine that was kept in the fridge but were surprised when he proceeded to open up 3 bottles of the wine we had selected before discarding them without letting us even try them, he then selected another bottle on our behalf before discarding that and finally settled on a bottle that met his exacting criteria costing around €14. A request for the bill at the end of a particularly busy evening was a little while in coming, when we reminded him about it he was sipping on his drink and perspiring a little “You not want bill yet, let me rest!” before pouring us two huge glasses of wine and giving us some cheese
. Great place, well recommended. So much so that I can’t even remember the other bars we drank in around here.The Beefeater was another Majumdar suggestion from his fable “Kicking it in the Costa” threads. Very busy with Spaniards and Brits it was absolute chaos. It took 30 minutes to take our drinks orders and another 30 minutes for the drinks to arrive.
The standard side order is chips which arrive whether you want them or not, and in our case arrived 30 minutes before our meat (I won’t describe it as a mian course because all the main courses are quite simply a plate of meat in various forms. When they did arrive a plate of baby lamb chops were very nice but where were the veg! Service in this restaurant was appalling, people were having to get out of the chairs to complain about the long waits only to be led straight back to their tables and almost forcibly sat down again. It made for a little entertainment but the delays were unacceptable and the waiters couldn’t handle it at all. Disappointing (lamb chops aside).
