Última Esperanza — Restaurant in Puerto Natales

Not recommended. The food is extremely overpriced and just not good. The crab (centolla), was over cooked and almost tasteless. The salmón ceviche looked and tasted like it had been made 2 days before. Ceviche is the easiest thing in the world to make fresh - and the salmon fisheries are right off the coast of puerto Natales. It should have been fantastic. The pisco sour was pre-made and probably purchased in a mix. The waiters were apathetic and inattentive. The setting is old fashioned and clunky but may appeal to older, traditional people. There is plenty of good seafood in Natales. But this place isn’t providing it. I feel bad posting such a negative review. But I got sucked in by a positive review and was so disappointed to waste my...

Covid had an impact on a few restaurants at Puerto Natales. We were looking for a beer factory, but we found it closed. The ones that were opened were not what we were looking, we already had lunch at the Asador Patagónico, when we found a restaurant that had a very formal construction and the interior had the format of the old traditional restaurants. Its name was Última Esperanza (Last hope), taking the name of the Seno de la Última Esperanza, which is close to Puerto Natales.

We both had beaf prepared in different formats: “Milanesa” Milanese and “Lomo a lo Pobre” beaf with onions, potatoes and topped with 2 eggs.

Both dishes were excellent. We noticed that there were not tourists, they...

The food is good and the ambient is reasonably good, though the place is a bit crammed and a bit more space between tables wouldn't hurt. The main problem was the service, with a waiter which seemed extracted from a Coen Brothers dark comedy. Completely unkind, bossy and sharp, it is exactly the opposite to what one may be looking when visiting a restaurant on a holiday location. It is most contrasting when comapred with the lovely and kind people of...