I love calamari, but my wife won’t touch it!.
I ordered calamari in Berlin restaurant one time, and they served me a huge platter of it, I could not eat it all!.................
My kids all love calamari and smoked octopus. They now prepare their own.
Some of the most delicious calamari (besides the wonderful fried rings of it) was when my wife and I went to Mallorca on our second honeymoon, and we were served charcoal grilled calamari on a bed of greens.
They must rub it with garlic and soak it in lemon (I think) but it isn’t the tubes-it was the tubular body, split and laid out flat and grilled quickly over a hot charcoal fire so it has those fantastically appetizing dark sear marks on the bone white flesh of the squid!
I think it must be cooked very quickly over a very hot grill, otherwise it would be tough.