The Menu at Tixola

Tosta de salmón y queso

Smoked salmon and cream cheese on toasted bread. Cold, mild and straight to the point: the one you order without thinking while the rest arrives.

€6.80each

Tosta de trigueros, jamón y huevo de codorniz

Griddled green asparagus, ham and a quail's egg on top. Two bites, and the yolk does the rest.

€7.20each

Tosta de crema de cebolla, foie y rulo de cabra

Onion cooked down slowly until it turns sweet, foie and a medallion of goat's cheese. The most indulgent of the three.

€7.50each

Tixola de piquillos caramelizados y panceta

Caramelised piquillo peppers and crisp pork belly in the cast-iron pan, with eggs and chips. Sweet and salty in the same mouthful.

€12.50skillet

Tixola con chistorra

Chistorra (a paprika-spiced sausage) cooked in the pan itself, with eggs and chips. The plainest of them, and the one people come back for.

€11.50skillet

Tixola con gulas, setas y langostinos

Gulas (baby-eel look-alikes), sautéed mushrooms and king prawns on the hot iron, with eggs and chips. The fullest skillet of the lot.

€16.90skillet

• Signature dish

Tixola de raxo y Arzúa

Raxo — Galician marinated pork — under melted Arzúa-Ulloa cheese, over eggs and chips. It's the one in every photo of the bar.

€12.90skillet

• Signature dish

Tixola de pisto de verduras

Pisto — a slow-cooked vegetable stew — with eggs and chips. The meat-free skillet, and nobody's consolation prize.

€11.50skillet

• Vegetarian

Ensalada de gulas, setas y langostinos

A bed of leaves with gulas (baby-eel look-alikes), sautéed mushrooms and king prawns. Warm on top, cool underneath: a meal on its own.

€16.90portion

Ensalada de pollo crujiente, nueces y manzana

Strips of chicken breaded and fried to order, with walnuts and apple. The one ordered by people who did not come here for salad.

€14.30portion

Ensalada de ventresca

Tuna belly over fresh leaves and vegetables. Little else: when the ventresca is this good, the rest only gets in the way.

€13.90portion

Ensalada de cecina con helado de queso de oveja

Slices of cecina (air-dried cured beef) and a quenelle of sheep's cheese ice cream melting slowly over them. The best-looking plate on the menu.

€17.80portion

• Signature dish

Ensalada de aguacate y bacalao ahumado

Avocado and smoked cod, mild and buttery. The lightest of the five.

€16.90portion

Patatas bravas, alioli o mixtas

Chips with spicy brava sauce, with aioli, or with both. Your call, though almost everyone goes for both.

€8.50portion

• Vegetarian

Croquetas de jamón

A béchamel left to rest until it sets, with finely chopped ham, fried to order. Crisp outside, almost liquid inside.

€10.50portion

Half portion €5.30·Full portion €10.50

Croquetas de grelos y chipirón

Grelos (turnip greens) and baby squid folded into the béchamel: garden and sea in the same croqueta. The most Galician of the three, and the ones the reviews keep mentioning.

€11.50portion

Half portion €5.80·Full portion €11.50

• Signature dish

Croquetas de cecina y queso de cabra

Cecina (air-dried cured beef) and goat's cheese melted into the béchamel. The strongest of the three; one portion is plenty for two.

€12.50portion

Half portion €6.30·Full portion €12.50

Mejillones tigre

Mussels chopped and bound with béchamel, spooned back into their shells and breadcrumbed. The old bar-counter mouthful, made the way it should be.

€10.50portion

Calamares fritos

Squid rings floured and fried to order. Lemon on the side and no further ceremony.

€12.90portion

Tacos de bacalao en tempura con pimientos

Chunks of cod in a fine tempura, with peppers alongside. They crack when you bite and stay juicy inside.

€15.60portion

• Signature dish

Salteado de verdura, arroz y setas

Vegetables and mushrooms tossed over a high flame with rice. A full plate for anyone who would rather skip the fryer.

€11.50portion

• Vegetarian

Croquetas sin gluten

The same croqueta, made without gluten. It is on the menu because we are asked for it daily; do say so when you order, so the kitchen has it in mind.

€12.90portion

• Gluten-free

Tortilla guisada con champiñones

A soft Spanish omelette finished in a short mushroom stew. Eaten with bread, and nothing is left over.

€11.90portion

• Vegetarian

Fingers de pollo

Chicken strips in a corn coating, fried, with a honey and mustard sauce. The plate the children lay claim to and the one the adults end up picking at.

€7.90portion

Pastel de cabracho

The northern classic: scorpion fish, egg and cream baked together, served cold with toast. Mild, and full of the sea.

€10portion

Pulpo a la gallega o a la plancha

However you prefer it: á feira, with cachelos (boiled potatoes), paprika and oil, or seared on the griddle. The same octopus, two schools of thought.

€18.50portion

• Signature dish

Pulpo a la plancha con grelos

Octopus seared on the griddle over a bed of sautéed grelos (turnip greens). The bitterness of the greens against the sweetness of the octopus.

€19.50portion

• Signature dish

Salteado de pulpo, salmón y langostinos

Octopus, salmon and king prawns tossed together in the pan. The dearest plate on the menu, and the one with the most sea in it.

€20.50portion

Pulpo en tempura

Pieces of octopus in a light tempura, fried to order. Crisp outside and still tender within.

€18portion

Jamón serrano

Hand-carved and served at room temperature, so the fat softens. Bread on the side and little else.

€12.90portion

Queso del país

A young, mild Galician cheese from nearby. The one that sits best beside a glass of wine without overpowering it.

€9.50portion

• Vegetarian

Queso de oveja

A cured sheep's cheese, with more character than the local one. For anyone who wants the cheese to speak up.

€9.80portion

• Vegetarian

Queso de cabra

Goat's cheese log in slices, tangy and creamy. The counterpoint on the board.

€9.90portion

• Vegetarian

Revuelto de algas y langostinos

Eggs set just right with seaweed and king prawns. Tastes of the sea without being fish.

€12.80portion

Revuelto de bacalao, grelos y langostinos

Flaked cod, grelos (turnip greens) and king prawns bound with egg. The fullest of the three.

€13.90portion

Revuelto de setas y oreja

Mushrooms and crisp pig's ear over softly set eggs. Pure earth, and the most filling of the three.

€12.50portion

Postre del día

It changes with the day and with whatever came out of the kitchen that morning. Ask our staff: there's always something homemade.

€5portion

Postre sin gluten

The sweet option made without gluten, so nobody has to miss out on dessert. Ask what we have today.

€6portion

• Gluten-free

Ración de pan

The day's bread in its basket, for mopping up whatever is left in the pan.

€1.60basket

• Vegetarian

Ración de pan con tomate

Toasted bread rubbed with tomato and olive oil. It disappears on its own while the rest arrives.

€3.50portion

• Vegetarian