Las Lanzas has long been a favourite of ours. Back in the day when we first started coming, it was very much a “locals place” and it was rare to hear other than Spanish voices. But, over the years, other tourists have discovered it and this shift in emphasis may account for the last paragraph of this review.
We’d had a big lunch so were restrained in our ordering, sharing a salad as a starter - one of those big mixed salads that the Spanish do so well. This one combines leaf, cucumber, onion and peppers, along with tomato, sweetcorn and slices of avocado.
My companion in life ordered a classic sole meuniere as a main. A whole fish, on the bone, simply grilled with butter. Its perfectly cooked and is delicious (they always do good fish here). There’s some fried diced mixed veg counting towards the “five a day”.
I’ve seen “Secreto Iberico” on menus in Spain in recent years but had never ordered it. I knew it was a pork dish with the meat being taken from the shoulder but that was about it. This was the place to try it. It’s cooked as a thinnish steak to medium and then sliced into strips for presentation. Very flavoursome with a nice chew to it – certainly something to order again. There was the same mixed veg as the other plate. We didn’t go short of carbs – there was a plate of chips, another of Canarian potatoes (very salty even for how they usually are) and we’d already got thick slices of a crusty bread.
We didn’t fancy dessert (which are never great here) but coffee was good.
We got the bill and that was things left a nasty taste in the mouth. We were short-changed to the tune of €10. Of course as soon as I mentioned it to the server, there was an apology and another €10 was brought. Now, of course, this may have been an entirely genuine mistake but the nature and tone of the apology left us in some doubt about that. I can only advise other customers to check their change.