Parador De Manzanares

Great place to stop by, the staff excellent, we loved Sonia that made us feel at home, sure if we can we will repeat, everything perfect.

The restaurant is different to most as it has a buffet starter and dessert however you order your main course as normal. I think it worked quite well as the hotel in the evening is predominantly used by hotel guests who are travelling and are probably pretty hungry by then. The starters included salads, seafood, paella, crispy chicken and prawns and the items we tried were good, we both had shoulder of lamb for the main and it was delicious, crispy skin, not oily, served with sliced potatoes and peppers, we really enjoyed it, there was a choice of about eight desserts, including cheese cake, rice pudding, creme Catalan we didn’t really need a dessert, but when it was there....The male waiter who served us was lovely, really helpful and cheerful and we enjoyed our meal.

We had dinner in this restaurant and were rather impressed. It is unique amongst Paradores we were told in that dinner consisted of a buffet starter and dessert with main course selected from the menu. The buffet selection was very impressive biased towards seafood, but plenty of other options. For main my wife had lamb chops which she professed were good, whilst I had fillet steak. I have to say the quality of my steak was not the best, and it was a little undercooked, otherwise I would have ranked this restaurant 5 stars. I should add that if you wanted something simpler, or did not want the buffet option the normal range of Parador dishes were available in the bar/cafeteria. Recommended

Kindness and excellent treatment, very good food, although there are missing wines that were contained in the letter and did not have them, we have tested others from the area that were quite successful.

The letter was not very wide and the food is typical but a little heavy. I found it a little expensive for what we asked for. until the oil service they charge you.