Restaurant Review ? Chambao El Vizco, Durcal - Spanish Food ...

Chambao El Vizco

After eight years of trying, I know that dining out in Andalucia can resemble playing the lottery.

I have found that the most consistent factor when dining out in the south of Spain is the very inconsistency on offer. One week a restaurant serves a meal to remember for all the right reasons, the next week a disaster.

As you would expect, there are some notable exceptions to the rule.

Tucked just below the impressive former railway bridge at Durcal, south of Granada, is the Chambao El Vizco restaurant.

It only opens each Friday to Sunday and during local holidays. What it lacks for in days, it makes up for in hours, opening its doors at Noon and staying open until midnight.

It is set in nice gardens. This is a perfectly pleasant place to sit, read your newspaper, have a drink, enjoy some tasty tapas and watch the local wildlife.

Dining outside in warmer weather is not only possible, but is the option favoured by regulars. Even in the winter months.

It is only when the mosquitoes come out to play in August that it is wiser to dine inside the pleasant restaurant in which?the atmosphere is very relaxing and the service attentive.

Of course, one man?s meat is another man?s poison. On my last visit three people in the party of four chose to order the lamb. We were made aware of the fact that this would take time and were happy to sit outside with drinks and the tapas that, incidentally, are consistently good.

The lamb arrived eventually and was a little overcooked. That made a change. Too often on my culinary travels through Andalucia I have found myself asking for the meat to actually be cooked!

In the north of Spain puddings are imaginative and varied. In Andalucia they too often come out of a freezer cabinet in which the ice creams are kept. I have been served so very many postres that arrive at the table still frozen. I always give such restaurants the cold shoulder.

But at Chambao El Vizco I was served a very good Tiramisu that truly had been made in someone?s home. Whose, I do not know. But it was not out of the chill cabinet and tasted all the better for it.

The total meal including the overdone lamb, a serving of moussaka, puddings and liqueurs came to a whopping 112 euros.?I guess that, in the case of Chambao El Vizco, they have to make up for the fact that in most weeks, they only open for three days.

I have had better meals in the city of Granada for less. I am often surprised in Spain at how menus in the provinces can be as expensive, if not more so, than in a city.

To me, a London boy, that doesn?t make any sense. Restaurants in villages and towns should be charging less for main courses such as steak or lamb than their competitors in the nearest city centre.

But Chambao El Vizco is a nice place to sit outside in the shade on a sunny day and have some lighter meals, or snacks with a drink. And there are some splendid walks to enjoy in beautiful countryside just outside the restaurant entrance.

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Source: http://www.spanishfoodworld.co.uk/restaurant-review-chambao-el-vizco-durcal/

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