We made a reservation for four with a request for a view of the beach for my daughter’s 18th birthday. We received multiple confirmation emails.

My wife and I show up 30 minutes early to check the table and prep it. The staff had no clue about our reservation. They scrambled for two minutes before finding us an inside table meant for two with a view of the beach. The nice waitress had to add two sets of glasses and silverware to the table. The table was very tight for four people ordering drinks, appetizers, and food.

We ordered appetizers and purposely did not order dinner immediately. About 15 minutes after ordering the appetizers, we ordered dinner. The appetizers never came to the table. When we asked for additional bread for the mussels during the ordering process, the waitress made it clear she would have to “order” it for us (found out later that it was a 7.95 charge). The bread made it to our table immediately, but the waitress had the bread taken back because we were supposed to get our appetizers first. We got that same basket of bread 30 minutes later with our dinner - bread was hard, not fresh and soft.

The food was good and plentiful; a bit overpriced, but we understood we were paying for the location (tourists and the beach).

We ordered a brownie so that we could place a candle on it for our daughter to blow out the candle. Don’t order the brownie.

So, we tried to reserve a table with the notification we were celebrating our daughter’s 18th birthday. They messed it up.

They knew it was my daughter’s birthday based on the gifts, the celebration, and my wife’s preparation (birthday napkins and showing up early). The restaurant not only messed up multiple times during the service, they did absolutely nothing for the birthday.

FYI: I mentioned the birthday part to inform you not to expect any support. I was not looking for a “discount” or “freebie.”

Thank you to our waitress. You were very nice and tried to make it nice for us - the reason for the large tip. (even though you took advantage of us asking for more than two pieces of bread for the mussels by charging us almost 8 Euro for old/hard bread)

Dinner and drinks were 200 Euros (would have been more if our appetizers actually came out). Sad.