Anyone been to this Restaurant ??
On Sunday evening we decided to go somewhere completely different with our friends and went to a restaurant that is on the main N332 road going towards
Torrevieja - just a little past Guardamar. The restaurant is situated on the right hand side up a hill with flags flying - not sure what it's called !! - completely Spanish.
We picked our table and the waiter very quickly appeared. We managed to order our drinks and much to our surprise we actually got a bottle of Semi-Sweet white wine (usually the Spanish do not even know what sweet white wine is) - that was the best part of the evening. It went downhill very fast after that.
We were brought bread and ali oli and asked which salad we wanted off the menu. We duly ordered our main meal (I didn't think it was a very good choice) but I ordered pork chops, as did one of my friends. The other two in our party ordered the mixed grill (I thought it was going to be eggs, bacon, sausage,
etc etc).
There I was enjoying my bread roll and dipping it in to my ali oli when all of a sudden I sensed the waiter standing by the side of me - I looked up and there he was - hands outstretch trying to take my plate away. Well, you can imagine my face can't you? My glare must have frightened him off. He mumbled something in Spanish (of which we didn't understand). A few seconds
later all our main meals arrived - none of us had even finished bread or salad. How bad is that? Would you like your bread/ali oli being *stolen away from you* while you were still eating? NO of course not !
The main meals: 2 very large pork chops completely covered with salt (I have high blood pressure and cannot eat salt). In any case restaurants should NOT be putting salt on your food (that's what salt pots are for). The Mixed Grill - Pork, Chicken & Lamb - just the meat on our plate. Very quickly a very small plate of scrawny bedraggled chips arrived - this was for 4 people. I might add 3 euros extra for these so called chips. Needless to say we had to order another plateful of these scrawny bedraggled looking chips to fill up on.
TO SUM UP: Extremely Expensive TOTAL 68 euros (and that was only the main meal - no starter, pud or coffee), Very unprofessional Service, not an enjoyable meal and very unfriendly and we will never be going back there again. We did NOT leave a Tip !!
Thanks for the tip off! I´ve driven past it loads and often see alot of cars parked outside and had intended to try the place out.
I think the restaurant is really just aimed at the Spanish ! I shall never forget the evening though. The hand appearing and trying to take my break/ali oli was a bit like **Thing** from The Munster's years ago. In fact, when I think about it, the waiter looked a bit like **Herman** he he. But saying that I liked Herman !! x
I had to smile Carol,the same thing happened to us about three years ago,in the round restaurant behind supa valu .Only we had to wait 20 minutes for the Ali oli,which was on the table for three minutes,when the waiter came back grabbed the plates and said 'your meal is ready.the main meal
wasnt too bad,but we asked for mustard,which never arrived,we couldnt get his attention (or to be polite he ignored us)when we asked for another bottle of wine,I had to search for the manager,who brought the wine immediately.We then asked for three desserts,the waiter brought back one,and selected which one of us could have it,the three of us declined,so withour flinching he put it in front of the only person who didnt want a dessert and said 'you eat'obviously we had just about enough of this appalling service and i told him where to put his dessert,and asked for the bill,as like you he didnt get a tip and to help things along the extra bottle of wine wasnt on the bill,and i forgot to tell them.To this day although the restaurant has changed hands ,I have never been back there.
A thought has crossed my mind that perhaps these people sold up and bought a lovely restaurant on the hill between guardamar and Torrievieha,which has flage flying outside
Ha ha Alan - thank you for posting that - it's nice to know that these things just don't happen to little old me !! Oh dear what a shame you forgot to pay for the wine ha ha
My God Carol did he have a death wish. You should have said "Touch my food, feel my fork".
ha ha**** It all happened so quickly Eve. When you think about these things afterwards and what you should have done he was very lucky that I didn't clout him one he he. Good job you weren't there and he tried to take your food while you were still eating. He would have died with fright when you got your mouth in gear ha ha (not that he would have understood English) !! Plus they didn't even have any mayo for the salad - how bad is that in an expensive restaurant ??????
Ditto hee!! hee!! Nod!! Nod!! you had to be there to actually see Carol's face, her eyes followed the waiter from his thumb up to his face and she did have very scary eyes!!!!!
We could not believe he wanted to take her plate away while she was still eating, so I grabbed my plate and put it onto my left side so they couldn't take it!!!!
It was a good job we had a couple of wine so we could make our own entertainment and have a laugh about the evening.