Taberna La Cigarrera — Attraction in Sanlúcar de Barrameda

Despite the friendliness of the waiter, the restaurant's policy seems to be energetically pushing dishes and drinks onto the customers and bullying them. First, it was some house wine that "everyone has" in the restaurant. Some of us thought it was a welcoming drink. We agreed to take it only to find it to be too alcoholic and we were unable to drink it. As per the picture attached  taken at the end of the meal. Secondly, after "negotiating" the dishes, we found them all greasy and oily. Finally, when we questioned the bill with the wine and a service charge and asked to talk with the manager, he came in just to confront and bully us. After reading the other reviews here, we confirmed that this service and practices are part of their organizational culture. I would not return here even if I was being...

Our guide made this place a final stop of our tour; Through the ambient cellar that housed numerous barrels of wine still maturing and into the open air patio which was naturally shaded by greenery. Our server lead us to another section of the restaurant which had us seated next to more barrels. We've sampled the wine, to my own opinion was delicious. The food served was delectable yet affordable. The atmosphere overall had a rustic, homely feel that made the entire experience enjoyable. I encourage anyone who visits this city, should definitely head to...

We arrived for dinner just before 9:30pm on 23April22. The restaurant was very quiet with only one other table of four.

The other customers left at 10pm and it was then that the staff obviously decided they wanted an early night so the waiter told us they were closing. When we pointed out that we hadn’t even finished our wine, let alone had a desert or coffee he replied, very abruptly, ‘well I’ll give you another five of maybe ten minutes but we are closing”.

We wouldn’t expect this sort of treatment anywhere, least of all Spain, where the service is...