Fried Calamar
Granada

Granada

410 Wagaraw Rd, 07506, Hawthorne, United States

Cafe • Coffee • Cheese • Seafood


"I've driven by here going to and from work for the past 21 years and never been here. Finally tonight, I convince my wife to give this place a shot. We start off with the white sangria. Sangria was excellent. Not too sweat and the perfect amount of alcohol. I've had many pitchers that they kill it with sugar and skimp on the alcohol. This was very well done. Appetizers were fried calamari and Spanish sausage. Calamari was VERY chewy and the tomatoe sauce was not the greatest which is understandable since it's not an Italian restaurant; but the calamari was not the greatest. I'm spittle worried. The Spanish sausage came in for the save. It was excellent. Not over cooked nor overwhelmingly salty like many places are. This was perfectly done and sautéed with onions. Top notch. Dinner consisted of myself going with the paella valenciana and my wife had the filet mignon granada. Paella was good. I've had better but I wasn't completely disappointed. There was very little sausage in it, but thankfully I got my sausage fix with the appetizer. The chicken was dried out. Seafood in it was very good. Lobster, scallops, shrimp, clams mussels. I had to try my wife's filet mignon for research purposes. It was excellent. Very tender and in a brown sauce with mushrooms and cheese. I should've went with that but had a hankering for paella. To end the night, we went with a couple of Spanish coffees. Kind of hard to mess that up. Service was a little slow. It wasn't overly crowded and being it is not that large inside, there was more than enough waiters/waitresses to handle the customers. They were very polite, just very inattentive. Our sangria pitcher was empty when the entrées came out and never was asked if we wanted a refill. Also we never heard from our waitress the entire meal. They need to step up their game a notch in that department, otherwise it was a pleasant experience. Dress is very casual. There's a bar when you first walk in but it's very clean and well kept. A tad pricey but not crazy. It's good for your Spanish fix for the area compared to the alternative of driving to the IronBound section of Newark which we've done numerous of times."