Victor de la Serna once said, during a wonderful trip around Galicia, that after eating the huge and thin "soles" served in a restaurant in Vigo called EL MOSQUITO, he had never tried anything alike in the world.

In an article published by Luis Bettonica in the Gourmet Guide (Sept. 1985), he claims that after he visiting EL MOSQUITO for first time with his dear friend Alvaro Cunqueiro "There are meals that you can't forget!".

Also Joaquín Merino, "Prince of the Chefs" says about EL MOSQUITO, "there, singers, businessmen, politicians, soccer players and the floating and sedentary people of all Vigo always come".

So in one way or another, we could continue enumerating several testimonies about our Restaurant that different figures have stated.

The picture above is a very valuable picture. Alvaro Cunqueiro, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and Josep Pla sit smiling with the owner and her daughter of El Mosquito, in La Piedra de Vigo, one of the most charming restaurants of Galicia.

From the facial expression in the three men, from Mr. Josep's ideals and Mr. Alvaro's cigar, aside from the detail of the Arzúa cheese in his hand, that most likely Ms. Carmen Roel just gave then, it can be noticed that they had just eaten, at least, an amazing seafood, with one of those albariños that Mr. Alvaro used to taste, always trusting the advice from his dear friend José María Castroviejo.

Lighting his cigar might have amused Mr. Alvaro, because for that single ceremony someone offered him a simple but attractive matchbox. There was a line of eulogy written on it by a genius and a gentleman of the Spanish cinema, José Bódalo, which read:

People will al ways say:
"El Mosquito" is infectious;
it like playing the fool!!
Come and see it!!

The delicacies are formidable,
they treat you like if you were in a party,
I join the “infection”.I can die happy!! 

Also that master of Andalusian singing, Juanito Valderrama,
wanted to leave a memory with a nice sentence:

My couplet about the emigrant is even famous in Quito,
but it has much less fame than El Mosquito Restaurant. 

Article published in "Gourmet Guide" by "Luis Bettonica"

I visited El Mosquito a long time ago, about fifteen years more or less. I sat in a table with my unforgettable dear friend Alvaro Cunqueiro, an exceptional and competent host of Galician cuisine and gastronomy.

There are meals that you can´t forget, as like the lucky time that Alvaro ordered with supreme and at the same time discrete authority. It was a quite simple menu: oysters, fried sole and almond pie. You can imagine how good those oysters were, that even though I wasn't a fan of them, I ate them all at once. We swallowed, our respective dozens, exquisite, fresh from the sea, recently opened and without lemon. After satisfying my taste with Atlantic flavour, we moved on to the sole: two soles arrived on the table, unique to the Galician coast, huge, pretty, very fresh and wonderfully fried. If my mind doesn't fail me, the current reality pleases me, because despite of the saying that assures that any past time was better, the oysters and the soles of El Mosquito remain today as exquisite as before. The same I can say about the seafood offered in the menu. The continuity in the restaurant's quality has helped achieving a much deserved fame, consolidated for more than half a century of work. Jorge Victor Sueiro, a wise and rigorous expert in cuisine, accurately described El Mosquito as "One of the most important and celebrated restaurants in Spain".