Can Koya, L'Escala

I'm acutely aware that a review of a (hitherto) obscure restaurant in a small town in Spain isn't going to be one of my most read posts of the year. Back in the days when I was doing 6 or 7 posts a month, slipping the odd leftfield location in now and again just made things a bit more interesting for me - perhaps if I was lucky would provide some kind of inspiration for one or two readers, but it would soon be followed-up by somewhere a bit more Central London and I wouldn't lose too many of you along the way. More recently though, with my new routine of one or two posts a month, these "extra" reviews carry a bit more weight, and run the risk of shedding even more of my dwindling readership. So in deciding to write about Can Koya, a relatively new Japanese restaurant in the Catalonian seaside town of L'Escala, I've made the judgement that despite its decidedly non-London location, its hardly groundbreaking approach to Japanese cuisine and the fact that the vast majority of the people…