Oleander Restaurant — Restaurant in Xaghra

I went for lunch on Thursday October 16th. I waited for around 15 mins for a gin&T . I went to inquire at the bar to which the rude person employed behind the counter told me "bro we are very busy" - To be addressed as BRO, in that tone, by a stranger in the hospitality industry is bad enough- but to be told "we are very busy" as if understaffing or busy on a THURSDAY lunch time in October is my problem ! This guy has been working there for several years. Plz provide proper training to your staff to be courteous ! always - busy or not - especially on a Thursday in winter . He might have got away with it on a Saturday night in July . Also the female waitress was extremely kind and professional . But this totally dampened the whole experience. For the 90+ euros I spent as a personal 1 person bill, I think i...

Rabbit stew was tried here, which was quite nice - gentle meat, although was a bit missing spicies. In turn, there was to many rosemary added in vegetables (coming as a side dish), which were giving unnecessary bitterness. To be noted that portion is huge and it's rather for sharing for 2 persons. As another dish steak was ordered and the meat itself was not proper, although mushroom sauce was good. Service is a bit on weak side - from one hand personal is very friendly, from another you are required to remind about smth you didn't receive and wait long for bring serviced. To be mentioned that everything we ordered were brought simultaneously - you are not expecting to eat bread with olive sauce, starter and the main all together and expect them to come in an order to enjoy...

Starters were out of this world, grilled calamari which was so tasty and tender… The deep fried calamari is wonderful, very good , also the aljotta soup which is perfect and very tasty… Chicken/pesto pasta was so tasty , the ribeye steak top quality cooked to perfection!… For the main course we ordered Beef Olives cooked stew in red wine and tomato sauce, a Fresh RibEye Steak which was cooked to perfection and Veal cooked on the bone and also cooked to perfection… We both had pasta from the daily specials (my husband had the tuna with olives and capers, I had the ricotta ravioli with truffle and Parmesan), and they were both delicious… The baby prawns deep fried were divine . For main I had a steak with a stunning truffle sauce . Both were...