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| - I went to Las Canarias with two friends, one being from Spain and the other having lived in Spain for a bit. Me, I've been to Spain a few times and absolutely love their food. We had a bit of high expectations as we had read Gilchrist's review in the Calgary Herald, although I'm now convinced that Gilchrist needs to get out more into the real world to widen his palette.
Let's start with the service. We arrived on a Friday, late afternoon, 3'ish therefore there was only one table with two people. The waitress was extremely slow. She took about 10minutes to bring us the menu... don't ask me why. We ordered the following: Tortilla Espan'ola, which only came with two slices! We all looked at each other with the WTF expression, never seen this dish served in slices, we are all used to getting the entire tortilla. The taste, meh. Salpicon de mariscos was OK, small. The one I had the most trouble with was the gambas al ajillo. Overcooked shrimp and very greasy. Too bad. Aceitunas, these were ok, not sure why they charge this plate when everywhere else these are free. But let's continue. Nueces tostadas con Datiles, overall ok. My two fiends had the sangria which looked delicious and I had an amazing glass of white wine.
To get our bill, the server disappeared and we waited until someone else took notice from the kitchen, a nice guy from Spain!! Will not be back.
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