Besuch bei Emma’s Cantina Mexicana

Nachdem wir bei unserem letzten Besuch auf Lanzarote ein paar Mal an Emma’s Cantina Mexicana vorbeigekommen sind, sind wir dieses Mal dort Essen gewesen.

Emma’s Cantina Mexicana in Calle Teide

Das Essen ist sehr gut und die Speisekarte beinhaltet sowohl scharfe als auch nicht scharfe Gerichte. Sogar die Kinderkarte hat mexikanische Gerichte.

Die Fajitas sind eine besondere Erwähnung wert – Tortillas die man selbst mit Huhn-, Rind- oder Shrimps und mit einer Auswahl an Saucen füllt – sowie das hausgemachte  “Chili Rojo”.

Als wir gingen bekamen wir einen Gutschein über 15% auf die nächste Rechnung wenn wir an einem Donnerstag oder Sonntag wieder kommen würden – wovon wir dann auch Gebrauch machten.

Auf der anderen Seite fanden wir, dass die Desserts überteuert waren. Vor allem die Brownies, die sich als drei kleine Brownieecken herausstellten für 6 Euro (plus I.G.I.C.).

Eine besondere Erwähnung sollte auch die deutsche Übersetzung der Karte bekommen, die eine der besten ist die wir auf der Insel gesehen haben.

Unsere Empfehlung: hingehen, die Atmosphäre und das exzellente mexikanische Essen genießen, aber vielleicht ein Eis auf dem Heimweg  in Erwägung ziehen statt eines Desserts.

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Emma’s Cantina Mexicana (revisited)

After passing by Emma’s Cantina several times on our last visit to Lanzarote, we finally made it there this time round.

Emma's Cantina Mexicana in Calle Teide
Emma’s Cantina Mexicana in Calle Teide

The food is of a very good standard and the menu includes both spicy and non-spicy Mexican dishes. Even the children’s menu has Mexican items on it!

The fajitas are worth a special mention – tortillas that you fill yourself with either beef, chicken or prawns and a selection of sauces – as is the home-made “chili rojo”.

As we left we were given a voucher for 15% off our next meal if we went back on a Sunday or a Thursday – something we did make use of.

On the downside, we felt that most of the desserts were overpriced, with the worst being the „brownies“ which turned out to be three small brownie wedges for 6 Euros (plus I.G.I.C.).

A special mention should be given to the German translation of the menu, which is one of the best that we have seen on the island!

Our recommendation: go there and enjoy the atmosphere and the excellent Mexican food, but maybe consider an ice cream on the way home as an alternative to the desserts.

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Should the rich pay more tax?

BBC News reported today about an idea circulating in Germany about higher taxes for the rich.  There is talk of a 5% “wealth tax”, which in theory would mean the most wealthy German residents helping to stabilise the economy.

I don’t believe it would work, and it is probably the wrong way to go about solving the economic problems here.

Why it would not work

It is very difficult in Germany to pass laws that only affect part of the community.  So you can tax people for driving a car for example, and you can give tax relief for driving an environmentally friendly car, but you cannot really offer car tax relief for someone on low income.  If they afford the car, then they can afford the tax!

The best example recently was the rule that you could only claim back tax on the cost of getting to work if you had to travel more than 20km each morning.  Anyone living closer lost out.  It took a couple of years and several court cases to get the rule revoked and tax rebates paid out to thousands of people.

In fact, income tax is one of the few taxes that I know of that has different bands rather than just percentages.

So the chances are, that someone somewhere would try to get a “wealth tax” that only affected people with a certain amount of capital overturned, because it was not treating the entire population equally.

Either that or the entire population would have to pay and even those with little savings in the bank would end up contributing towards the financial recovery in a way they would prefer not to.

Why it is the wrong way

The bureaucracy in Germany is extensive to say the least.  Surely there must be room for improvement here and ways of saving money without cutting services.  In fact, I have heard all sorts of ideas about this from the main political parties over the last 10 years, but none seem to come to fruition.

Instead of increasing taxes, it would be better to help companies improve their turnover – resulting in the long run for more income for the state.  In my opinion, increasing the VAT rate a few years ago was not the right decision.

Give the people money in their pockets by not taking it out in the first place, and the chances are that they will spend it or save it to earn interest.  Either way, it will be taxed.

What you may not know…

… is that Germany already has a wealth tax (Vermögenssteuer) – except that it was declared unconstitutional in 1995 and although it still exists in the tax statutes, it is not applied as present.

If the new Government really does want to re-introduce it, then they will have some hard thinking to do first.

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