La Gran Via is a traditional and prestigious restaurant in the historic center of the city. We went for a Mothers day celebration and have a very good time there, ate reasonably good and it was not as expensive as the $$$$ price classification suggests...(for Americans it will be on the cheap side). To my taste, the decoration looks old and pretentious, and the food, while generally good, has a very poor presentation. For instance, in one of the plates the meat and the sides color was almost identical, both of them kind of brownish. They are in dire need of a good chef for designing their plates. Service was very attentive.More

A beautiful restaurant serving delicious Spanish cuisine. Service is brusque but professional. The mystery was that it was mostly empty on a lively Saturday night. Could it be the choice of music? The 70's and 80's hits? If you had told me in 1980 that...Adam and the Ants would one day be background dinner music at a fancy Spanish restaurant in Mexico, I would have said you were crazy. And let's not even talk about the soundtrack to "Footloose"! Maybe there would have been more people there if they'd played Spanish guitar.More

I took my wife here for Mothers Day after making a reservation due to the excellent online review (don’t believe them). Our experience was terrible getting there at 7pm we were seated just after a family with 3 young children. We all sat in a...smaller dining area that the AC was broken. We sat down and we’re asked for our drink order and waited quite some time before that was filled. The service was lousy and after ordering our appetizer the waiter brought utensils out late but had to wait another 15 minutes to get napkins as they didn’t have any clean. The food was so-so but not what you expect from this kind of restaurant and the poor family that was seated before us was served last which they were not happy about either. After a very hot evening and battling getting food and any service we were ready to leave and my wife went to the restroom and they didn’t have any running water but just a pitcher for the sink. Makes you think how do they even clean dishes?? Not a great Mothers Day night out or any other for that matter…..More