Restaurant · Sanlúcar de Barrameda
El Espejo
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- Price
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- Where
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda
El Espejo is at Calle Caballeros, 11, in Sanlúcar's Barrio Alto, next to the Posada de Palacio and a short walk from the palace of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia. It is a Mediterranean market-cuisine restaurant. It works with fish and seafood from the Sanlúcar fish market, vegetables from the navazos (the town's sand gardens) and from La Colonia, acorn-fed Iberian pork from Huelva and Vejer beef.
From the navazo and the fish market
The menu is organised into cold and hot starters, fish, meat, vegetarian dishes and a children's section, plus off-menu specials. Among what is published: Sanlúcar prawn, grilled, griddled or salt-baked, at €10 each; carabinero, at €20; grilled prawns, €16 a dozen. To start, a sea bass tiradito with navazo vegetables and passion-fruit leche de tigre (€23) or a salad of pickled anchovies with roast peach (€16.50). There is grilled tuna loin marinated in soy and amontillado (€23) and a fideuà in a llauna with prawn (€20) or carabinero (€29). The bread and breadsticks service is charged at €3 per person.
The wines are mostly from Sanlúcar: manzanillas, amontillados, olorosos, palos cortados and pedro ximénez, alongside others from Cádiz and the rest of Spain.
The €56 tasting menu
If you prefer not to choose, the tasting menu costs €56 with service and VAT: roast onion and avocado soup with smoked mackerel, cañaíllas with blue crab cream, seafood salpicón, chickpeas with razor clams, roast red mullet with tomato and palo cortado jus, a vegetable menestra with Iberian pluma and two desserts. Menus are served from 13:00 to 14:30 at lunchtime and from 20:30 to 22:00 in the evening. There are also menus for groups.
Opening hours that change three times a year
El Espejo changes its hours by season. In autumn, from 16 September to 20 January, it opens Tuesday to Sunday at lunchtime, from 13:00 to 16:30, and serves dinners Thursday to Saturday, from 20:30 to midnight; on Monday it is closed. In winter, from 20 January to 22 March, it opens only Thursday to Sunday, and in summer, from 20 June to 15 September, it switches to dinners almost every day. Book on its website or on 651 141 650.
In the Barrio Alto
Next door you have the palace of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia and the Santiago Castle, and a few minutes away the Barbadillo wineries. If you stay the night, the Posada de Palacio is at number 9 on the same street.
What to order: the grilled Sanlúcar prawn, the sea bass tiradito with navazo vegetables and a fideuà to share
Practical details
- Phone
- +34 651 141 650
- [email protected]
- Opening hours
- MonClosed
- Tue and Wed13:00–16:30
- Thu–Sat13:00–16:30 and 20:30–23:59
- Sun13:00–16:30
- Cuisine
- Mediterranean, Cádiz
- Bookings
- Book a table on their website
House specialities
- Grilled Sanlúcar prawn
- Sea bass tiradito with navazo vegetables
- Carabinero fideuà
- Tasting menu
Tips
- Check the season's hours They change three times a year: check its website before you head up.
- The menu has a time limit It is served until 14:30 at lunchtime and until 22:00 in the evening.
- Ask for Sanlúcar wine The cellar has manzanillas, amontillados and palos cortados from the town.
Frequently asked questions
Which day is El Espejo closed?
Monday. In autumn, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays it only opens at lunchtime.
How much is the tasting menu?
€56 per person, with service and VAT, drinks not included.
Does it have vegetarian dishes?
Yes, the menu has a vegetarian section and one for children.
Where is El Espejo?
At Calle Caballeros, 11, in the Barrio Alto, next to the Posada de Palacio.