ANDALUSIA - CÁDIZ CITY - VENTORRILLO DEL CHATO

Miguel Renoir Spanish Guides
Jan 9
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Updated: 4 days ago

RESTAURANTE VENTORRILLO DEL CHATO

This restaurant is a beautiful historic Goya-esque 18th-century roadhouse, situated near the beach dunes, an oasis in the heart of a desert strip.

Jose Manuel Cordoba makes magic with fish here.

We come here for the Tortillitas de Camarones (shrimp fritters). The ones here are larger but also incredibly crispy, with more batter edges and significantly more shrimp than any others we had.

They are great with a cold fino sherry.

Other excellent dishes include.

Patatas aliñás (poor mans potatoes)

Atún de almadraba (almadraba caught tuna)

Arroz con las costillas de atún (rice with tuna ribs)

On this occasion, we had,

Buñuelos de bacalao (cod fritters)

Quisquillas de Huelva (prawns from Huelva)

Arroz Señorita (rice with pre-shelled seafood)

Arroz Negro (rice with squid ink)

There is an excellent, reasonably priced wine list, from which we had a bottle of Bodegas Pazo Cilleiro Albariño D.O. Rías Baixas 2024.

An iconic restaurant if ever there was one.

It boasts a spectacular location, excellent food, friendly service, and amazing, unique decor, including Napoleonic artefacts and relics hidden beneath glass floors.