Cadena restaurant — Restaurant in Valletta

Learn from our mistake and do not eat here!! While exploring the city, this restaurant was quieter than others, and had no wait time (clearly for a reason!), but we decided to eat here. Big mistake. Ordered drinks to begin with, coke/fanta etc, 3 of them arrived completely flat, 1 was fizzy and fine. We sent the 3 back to have them refilled, thinking maybe the machine needed refilled with carbonated water. The next 3 came out flat again (strange), told the waiter who said he didn't understand and we had to take it to the bar to speak to the manager. Manager said that's how all the drinks are and there was nothing wrong with them, I pointed out how every other table had flat drinks too that they weren't drinking (empty tables from people who had finished their meals but not touched their flat drinks, but we're clearly too polite to complain about it. Only to be told that's the way it comes, take it or leave it and he poured them down the sink. Onto the food, my meal was meant to be chicken curry, yet tasted and looked like plain chicken fried rice from your local Chinese back in the UK, only costing twice as much! It was bland, tasteless and something you could rustle up yourself in your kitchen with fried rice and plain chicken from home! My partner got spaghetti bolonegse, said the same, bland and tasteless, something she could have made herself. My friend got scampi, again just said it was like air fried frozen scampi from iceland back home. Nothing to sing about. Credit to them for 1 nice meal, as our 4th meal was risotto which was quite nice to be fair. Overall, rude service, plain, tasteless food and a forgetable experience. The place next door has great reviews, and I suggest if you're researching places to eat,...

Very slow service.

We made the mistake of sitting down here for a breakfast. It was a simple order. Two fresh orange juice, two toasts and a coffee. The waiter read the order back to us correctly. There were three waiters on the job and 6/7 tables to wait.

After 15 minutes we got one orange juice and one coffee, missing one orange juice. We asked for last juice and it arrived 25 minutes after placing the order.

After 30 minutes the toast arrived to the table. One correct the other one was missing a element. We noted this towards our waiter and we got the sense that he was going to correct it.

45 minutes into the breakfast we was tired of waiting and asked for the bill, mentioning that we still was waiting for the missing element of the breakfast.

We got an apology, which was fine and all. No efforts was made to either compensate or please us as customers since we clearly did not get what we ended up paying for.

The only positive upside for us was the orange juice. It was really good, but it does not change a...

We sat down between lunch and dinnertime without checking reviews first. We did check after ordering and were worried. First of all, the staff is interesting, not the regular waiter attitude you'd expect. The young lady is different, much more polite. Not that the others were impolite, just interesting. After being worried about the delays, food quality complains, we were surprised to get the order after 15-20 minutes. True, it was only us in the restaurant at that time. I am not an expert, but none of us actually complained about the food itself. Pasta, soup, wraps, chicken curry, pizza was all tasty, although the pizza was a little burnt on a side. Hygiene might be on the lower end. my wife advised to not go to the toilet unless it is a must... Prices are a little bit higher than in some other places, but was still acceptable. In the end I cannot give 5 stars, but it is definitely more than what the average was at that time (3.1). 4 for food, maybe 3.5 for the atmosphere as it is...