La Solana Restaurant

La Solana, at Rúa Antonio Otero, 41, in the port area of Ribadeo and a step from the marina, is a house of fish and seafood from the ría that works à la carte: the day's fish griddled or baked, local seafood and rice dishes. It has a bar for a drink standing and a dining room of about 55 seats. The current project began in June 2004, on a restaurant that had been open for a couple of years.

The ría's fish, without much fuss

The house prides itself on preparing the produce simply, and the menu follows that line. What is ordered most: soupy rice with lobster, goose barnacles, turbot, clams marinara, seafood salpicón and griddled squid; there is also seafood paella and rice with prawns Galician style. Of the local fish they cite sea bass, white seabream, John Dory and sea bream. If someone at the table prefers meat, they serve Asturian beef and Galician blonde beef with designation of origin.

The website does not publish fixed prices: it links to an online menu that is updated with the day's prices, especially for seafood and fish. Open it before going if you have a fixed budget.

Two midday sittings and a Wednesday without service

It is open from 12:00 to 23:45. On Tuesday it closes in the evening and on Wednesday all day. At midday it serves in two sittings, at 13:15 and 15:15, so don't count on sitting down at half past two without a booking. You book a table on its website or on 982 128 835, which also takes WhatsApp.

The bar holds about 30 people and is the option for a quick portion without a sitting. In summer they put out a small terrace, of five tables and fourteen seats: if you want it, say so when booking.

Set menus from eight diners

For eight or more diners they prepare set menus to order, adapted to the occasion: family meals, communions or company dinners. They are requested in advance by phone or email.

Before and after, on foot

From the same port leave the boat to As Catedrais and the trip on the ría under the Puente de los Santos, and the Blue Trail to the Illa Pancha lighthouse passes the Porcillán marina. If you sleep at the Hotel Rolle, about a hundred metres from the marina, you come on foot.