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- So here I am in El
Cine in Los Cristianos,
right by the port, but
the port is just down,
well, we couldn't get to it,
but there's an entrance down there.
And I've just ordered my
food, what did I order,
Merluza, think that's cod.
Anyway, it's always a nice bit of fish
and I've ordered papas arrugadas,
which are the Canary wrinkly potatoes,
and I've ordered salad as well.
Now the salad here
is tomato and onion salad,
that's all it is, so...
But it's got a nice bit of
sea salt on the top as well
and a bit of oil, so it's
basic but absolutely lovely.
Now this place here is very interesting.
It's on the site of, oddly
enough, an old cinema.
And if I remember, I'll put a photograph
of the old cinema here, up there
or there, or across my face or something
and you'll see what the old
cinema used to be called
and of course that's why they
call the restaurant El Cine.
And they've got a couple of
other restaurants as well,
one's called El Secreto which is,
I can't remember exactly where it is now
but it's certainly not in Los Cristianos,
it's in an area of, like Las
Zocas or something like that,
up in the mountains.
Anyway, that's why they
call it the secret.
Anyway, so back to this El Cine,
it's all fish, no in fact
they do chicken wings now.
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Because I come here to get fish.
And they do all sorts of fish,
they do deep fried
octopus, gorgeous prawns
and what else have they got?
I've already talked about
the fish I'm having.
Lots and lots of choice of fish.
Plaice as well, I'm sure
there's some plaice.
I'll put the menu up here.
Good choice of food
for anyone who likes fish.
Absolutely fantastic choice of fish
and they do chips as well as the potatoes,
wrinkly potatoes if
you're not keen on them.
I'm just waiting for the food to arrive.
I've had the trusty old beer,
which is no different anyway.
I was gonna have a glass
of wine but I thought well,
I know the beer so I'll have a beer.
So we're just waiting
for the food to arrive.
I just heard a bell ring so,
it's a bit like that experiment
where the bell rings
and then the dogs' mouth water
because they know that
every time the bell rings
they get some food.
So I dunno if that's me but
my mouth's watering already
'cause I just know what
it's going to be like.
They do a really, really nice
big platter of fish here,
oh in fact there's one just going across
to that couple over there
and it's got a bit of everything on it
and that's, if there's two of you coming,
or if there's two or more of you coming,
then order one of them
if you like fish, I mean,
obviously you're only here
because you like fish,
but you can have this platter
and it's got sardines on it,
it's got chocos, chocos?
I think chocos are cuttlefish. Chocos.
C H O C O S.
They're not octopus,
they've got eight legs I think,
tentacles, look like this, you know.
But they're okay.
I mean, I don't really eat them to be fair
but I have eaten them,
I've eaten them loads of times
but they're not my favorite.
I'd much rather just have some fish.
Oh, here's mine now.
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She's just brought out
tomatoes and potatoes
but she's not sure if
it's my plate or not.
Anyway, going back to that plate,
yeah, it's worth while ordering the plate
if there's a few of you
that you can all just
pick at. It's really nice.
Gracias.
Gracias.
Merluza, which I think, as I said before,
I'd better look it up really,
before I make an absolute fool of myself
but Merluza I think is Cod.
Potatoes.
Red and green sauces,
which you've seen on other videos on food
so you'll know what they are.
Tomatoes and onions.
The first one I did of this
I had, I bought my gimbal.
My gimbal is the thing
that you can put your mobile phone on it
and I mean, as you walk along
it sort of goes like that
so I can walk like that
but my camera, I can
walk, I say like that,
but my camera stays level.
Today I haven't brought it
so everything is literally done by hand
as in, I'm holding the
camera while I'm eating.
So I hope it looks all right
but anyway let me tell
you what the food's like.
And I think it's pretty
obvious what I'm going to say.
It is fresh.
Well, I'm quite certain it's fresh,
I mean it's pretty
obvious that it's fresh.
Potatoes are gorgeous.
Mm.
Had a bit of red sauce
with that. How hot's that?
You have to wait a while
until it bites you in
the back of the neck.
That's actually quite, I'm
quite happy about it, but...
Yeah, that's quite a hot one.
So if you're coming to El Cine,
just be careful of the hot sauce.
The fish is actually gorgeous.
Lovely. Really nice.
Tell you something else, if you come here,
you could have to be
prepared for a bit of a wait
because the queue at lunch time,
what's the time now? Half 2 I think,
but the queue can be right out the door.
I'll show you the slope
in a minute to walk up,
and the queue can be right
down there and as I say,
It's worth coming, it's
worth coming early or late
so you can get a place anyway.
But it's certainly worthwhile coming.
The green sauce is lovely as well.
Let's have a bit of potato
with the green sauce.
This green sauce has got
more sort of mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise, but potato is gorgeous here.
Really nice.
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There's quite a bit of confusion
amongst a lot of people
as to where El Cine
the restaurant is.
It's actually right behind me
which I know doesn't help you
so let's turn you around.
So this is Los Cristianos
beach, so this is the beach
that if you've been to Los Cristianos,
you'll almost certainly have
been on this beach before.
This beach here, let's just
points a few things out.
We've got just there Burger King.
Just next door to Burger King,
that is the pathway that leads
down from the church square.
So follow along here,
and then, well, there's the queue.
Bang on cue, there's the queue.
People very often say how
it's difficult to find it,
but straight down this pathway
or from this side, that's the
car park in the marina there,
and you probably know around the corner
there's a tunnel that goes off
and you can walk off to Las Americas.
But here, that's the
entrance there to El Cine.
So overall, once you know,
it's quite easy to find.
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