La Toldería — Restaurant in El Calafate

Absolutely awful all around, but especially the service. We took ages to be served, the food was taken to the wrong table twice and then back to the kitchen. Makes me wonder if they even bothered writing down what table the order was for. Once we got the food it was absolutely average, the fries were barely cooked. When we finished it took half an hour for anyone to notice, the staff were too busy crowding around the till to notice any of the customers. We finally managed to grab someone's attention and asked for the bill. Obviously didn't get it and had to ask twice more before we got it. They cheekily add a 10% tip automatically and we had no change. We asked for our change but the staff never came back with it. We waited until we had enough and left. The staff must have had a field day taking people for fools and essentially stealing tips. We were ignored all night and strongly advise people to go elsewhere for their meal as this was definitely not worth the...

Understandably overpriced (it's in the main street in the center of a town that lives off tourism), but rather overpriced nonetheless. The ambience has a nice decor, but it is jam full of tables to sit as many customers as they possibly can in the space, which is way more than the kitchen can handle, so you end up waiting for an hour for your food to arrive. And honestly, while not horrible, it is not worth the wait, nor the price they charge. Service is kind, especially considering all the long faces they get from people waiting and waiting for their food. The lamb in the lamb stew, which should be one of the place specialities, was chewy. The pumpkin soup was not bad, but severely lacked seasoning (and they don't even bring salt ad pepper, let alone oil, to the table when serving it. The trout with Roquefort sauce was actually nice, best dish we had, but too little to justify the wait...

I can count with one hand the times in my life I stood up in a restaurant to go check with the kitchen the status of my order. This place is definitely biting more than they can chew. We were the first ones to sit upstairs and definitely noticed that in the service. The Bife Argentino (picture) was good, but it took 50 minutes to get. The second round of drinks we ordered we had to cancel it cause it never came by the time we were done eating. There was a big and demanding group that came in the meantime and the waitress didn’t get any support for that (she was super nice, but she was overwhelmed). Reading other reviews it seems that speed of service is an issue, so whoever is planning the service should...