Restaurante Alfonso Valderas

Amazing food and attention. Recommended gluten free food for celiac.

For those looking for tasty, innovative, tasty dishes and in my case, suitable for celiacs, totally advisable. Looking forward to returning.

Our initial confusion (the restaurant is located on a mezzanine floor and is accessed by going up some stairs that, at first glance, look more like a neighbors' portal) ended as soon as we opened the door. The owner of the restaurant welcomes you and accompanies you to your table in a cordial and very polite manner. In our case, as soon as he made sure that one of the diners had a gluten intolerance, he notified the person in charge of the room who was personally in charge of changing the dishes of the celiac person and being, at all times, aware of what he ordered and ensure that there was no possibility of cross contamination. The restaurant specializes in cod, which they salt themselves and treat with care in each of their preparations. After some starters consisting of a Salad of Tudela buds with Bonito del Norte trunk and anchovies and a Black Pudding from León with apple compote and pine nuts from Castilla, our group of 4 people tried 3 of their specialties: Valderas cod, Gratin cod Valdeón cheese, and boneless pig's trotters stuffed with cod with Vizcaya sauce. You will forgive me if I do not accompany this comment with photographs, but believe me, there are restaurants in which the spectacle is in the genre, in its cooking, in its flavor, in the love and care with which the dishes are prepared and not in how they are plated, and I attest that they were as they deserved, well presented, generous in terms of quantity and plenty of quality. There was neither time for photos nor was it the appropriate place. You come to this restaurant to enjoy the food and the company, it is a family restaurant, one of the traditional ones, where people celebrate their birthdays, their anniversaries, their special days, and you had to respect that space of intimacy that all of them had been looking for. Not a single call rang, there was no one with their cell phone on the table, people were talking, laughing, enjoying... And returning to the food, impossible to decide which of the cod specialties was better. The only one of us who decided on the beef tenderloin also enjoyed a magnificent medallion in its exact point of completion, with an exquisite flavor and textures, without decorations, to enjoy the meat. We finished off the meal with a fantastic torrija and a glass of Guitian Vendímia Tardía that made the after-dinner meal a sweet finish to our passage through León. And the price of the food? Appropriate. No more, no less. Quality, service, attention, equipment and professionalism are paid for. And believe me, restaurants like this are worth every penny.