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We went to The Parador, Reigate on the late May bank holiday 2009 just for an evening out together.

Jim’s Opinion 6.5/10

Was really looking forward to this as been before.  Started off really nicely, ordered some wine but waiter was a bit weird it was like he wanted to get the ‘last word in’ before walking away.  I ordered chirizo sausage, spanish omlete and suckling pig.  When the suckling pig came out it seemed a massive portion so I asked matey the waiter if it was the tapas or the main course version, to which he went weird again saying something like ‘are you checking up to see if we know what we are doing’.  At this point I was getting annoyed with this waiter so complained about him to a different waiter, which got it off my chest.  Anyway back to the food and wine… this was nice and plentiful and would recommend (if you can avoid getting matey)!  When we asked for the bill, we had matey again (I thought round three), but I was pleasantly surprised.  Not sure if someone had said something to him, but he TOTALLY REDEEMED HIMSELF!

Nicola’s Opinion 6/10

I had booked this as a last minute thing so that Jim and I could have an evening out.  On calling The Parador I left a message on the answerphone (as it was before 5pm) saying when I wanted the reservation and how many for, they called me back within an hour and confirmed everything was booked.  Very chuffed with this as it made life easy.  We got to the restaurant and was quickly seated even though we was slightly early.  They came and took our wine order, I wont go into ‘matey’ as think Jim has covered this.  I ordered sizzling prawns in oil with garlic and chilli, meatballs in a tomato sauce and stuffed mushrooms.  Overall the food was enjoyable and I was pretty full, which is always good