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Gargantuan meal at Galicia's
Galicia's restaurant has a light and airy feel inside with a large bar and tables dotted throughout the open plan restaurant. The staff were friendly and welcomed most of us with a door held open and a smile.
Galicia's is not an easy place to miss. It has a large presence on the high-street and it's frontage is light. They have certainly achieved that "Mediterranean" look throughout the restaurant. The place feels family run, although I'm not sure it is.
From the seating area of the restaurant you can see the kitchen and chefs working away. There are actually very few places that you can't see from anywhere in the restaurant - no tucked away bits. This is actually a good thing and provides quite a settled atmosphere. Certainly, if you were meeting people here you'd have no problem spotting them.
Ordering was pain free and the food started arriving very quickly - although not suspiciously quickly... and it kept on coming... and coming... and coming... Then, just as we thought we were safe, more came. We certainly ordered too much as I think everyone was expecting the portions to be far less. As it happened, the portions were nearly main meal size. Certainly having 2 dishes would have been too much for 1 person (as you can see by the picture).
The food was delicious and the variety was good too.
All in all, it was a really great night in a well oiled machine of a restaurant.
Reviews of the night (taken from twitter)
from @dave_heron - "Good time last night. Galicia followed by @MatthewsYard - great!"
from @TramFam - "I've had a fab evening with everyone at @CroydonDC Thank you to everyone who attended. What a great group of individuals with wit & humour."
from @Rups32 - "Thank you for organising! we Had lots of fun & loved meeting everyone! Looking forward to next time for sure! :0)"
from @Bienosa - "Thanks @ChristoPM for organising another great night @CroydonDC. I'm tapas-ed out! Good to see you"
from @AnneGiles - "Great time at Galicia tonight with @CroydonDC - took camera and forgot to take photos!"
