Mesón do Pulpo

Restaurant I went to while on holiday. I am guessing the specialise in octopus since their restaurant sign has an octopus on it.
The first time I think I have had octopus was just the previous day when in Bilbao in a great pintxos/​tapas place — check out my review. However, not sure if it was how it was cooked but was not keen on it here. It was the texture — a bit slimy. I thought it may have tasted like squid which I really like.
Other than the octopus, we had some a monkfish salad, sardine pie, calamari, mussels and we ordered some extra potatoes. The salad and sardine pie were OK, I can’t even remember the calamari so can’t have been that good (or bad) but the mussels were really nice — lovely flavour. The potatoes which came with the octopus (and the extra ones) I thought were undercooked.
If it was just the food, I would be tempted to rate this ²⁄₅ (or 2.5 if I could) but the service was good. The waitress who served us spoke English so was able to explain the menu.
While we were eating we spotted a dog in the restaurant — guessing it belonged to the restaurant. It was looking downstairs which I think was the storeroom — and it appears where they were preparing the food and bring it upstairs to be cooked. Must have been tempting for the dog to go down the stairs and eat all the food!

Found this recommended on a well known travel guide and I was extremely pleased. It was one of the best seafood I’ve ever tried, every single dish was incredible, the sardines, fried peppers and the octopus are to die for.
A must for anyone visiting A Coruña.