El Toro Steak House — Restaurant in Municipality of Rhodes

We had dinner there a while ago. We were very disappointed. The atmosphere was cold and awkward, there was only one more couple next to us which is pretty odd for a Friday. The place felt promising since they had an impressive display of their meat in a fridge at the entrance.. We ordered the Caesar salad, it felt like those premade salads you get from the supermarket, the chicken was frozen chicken nuggets. After that, we ordered a burger and a tagliata. The buns of the burger were old and were crippling while eating the burger, they had a synthetic texture, the beef was thin and well done instead of medium rare and the chips were frozen. The tagliata was overdone , not medium rare. I’ve dined in many original steakhouses all over Europe I know a medium rare steak when I see one. I told the owner that I’m not happy with how it’s cooked. He insisted on gaslighting me that my steak was medium rare. He offered to change it but personally, I’m not okay with so much food being thrown away. In the end, we ordered the chocolate cake, which was complimentary from the owner, it was also outdated and spongy. The house wine was definitely watered down. The carpaccio was good. If I remember correctly, the burger was a god 20euro and the tagliata was around 40 euros. You’d expect a lot better from a so called steakhouse. This was the first time I had someone gaslighting me that my almost grey steak is medium rare. No wonder why he’s empty on a...

Great staff, strange, shocking and unwelcoming behavior by the owner of the restaurant:

My girlfriend received her steak burned!! We complained about it, the owner of the restaurant just said that is how it’s supposed to be (we ordered medium done) and then 5 minutes later came asking if everything is okay even though we just told him it isn’t. Feeling not welcomed: We were the last customers in the restaurant and were almost done with our dinner at 22:30. We saw how the restaurant owner put off the music, when we asked him about the music he acted as if he didn’t know what happened and put it on again. He kept walking passed us and back and starred at us until we ordered the bill, he really wanted us to leave already and even ordered us a cab before we even paid yet- It would have been better to ask us politely to leave soon vs being passive aggressive towards us and making us feel unwelcome.

Especially for such an expensive restaurant (We paid over 100€ for the dinner) it would have been nice to feel more welcomed and to be taken seriously when a...

Halloumi starter - the cherry tomatoe chutney is amazing!

Ribeye black angus USA premium - medium

rare

piece of meat

Bearnaise, ovenbacked hassleback potatoe, spinach artichoke cream, grilled broccoli &

bone marrow butter - all perfect! The sauce on the brocoli was perfection!

The potato twisters are a little too big for a starter if you're ordering potatoes as a side for your main. Theyre amazing! They're like nachos but potato crisp style!

The ovenbaked hassleback is a whole potato with sour cream which is very filling as a side.

Were not a small, tiny waisted family and the food we ordered was more than enough

The flavours of every dish we ordered was out...