El Patron Restaurant Vilamoura Marina — Restaurant in Loulé

We dropped in without a booking early evening on a Saturday and they found us a table on the deck fairly quickly. Ordered some nachos to start with and were asked if we would like guacamole and sour cream (will of course we would, otherwise it is just chips and a dip) then found out on the bill that they charged us €5, without having given any indication that would happen. We then waited over an hour for our dinner, with constant reassurance it would be "ready in minutes". The margerhita we ordered for €10.5 each were poor, with barely any alcohol in them. Once the food arrived, it was nice. Not amazing but nice. They did give us a complimentary tequila shot to apologise for the long wait for food, but it was poor tequila, so not much of a bonus. Overall disappointing and not really acceptable to give lown standard of service when you have such a great position. Either up the service and quality or reduce the...

Below/last comment was my first visit but today we went back. Unfortunately the food has gotten more expensive and less flavour some. My Burrito lacked flavour and is well over priced at €20. My wife enjoyed her meal but again over priced as was her virgin Mojito. The staff are still extremely friendly and I’m not sure who’s fault it was but we were given tortilla chips when we sat down, not asked, and then charged at the end for them. I was also charged full price for a pint but it was ordered and delivered during happy hour, I’m not getting into it with waiters over a few euro after a meal but imo this was under handed and a cheap shot at getting a few extra euros, so no tip.

Food is no longer cheap

Thought the food was very good and cheap. Service was good...

We ate here on Wednesday night on the last night of our holidays and absolutely loved it. It’s such a beautiful setting and the staff are really lovely. Our waiter (annoyingly I can’t remember his name), was really accommodating when I asked for a change to my order and he asked the chef for me, which I did not expect him to do. The food was top class too, and the portions are really large. We had the jalapeño peppers to start (I’m dreaming about them since) and a chicken burrito and pork tacos. Didn’t get a photo of the poppers as they disappeared so quickly. Such a great atmosphere in there too, I’d say it’s brilliant for a night out, but we had to get up To walk off the food! Probably my favourite place that we ate in vilamoura. Everyone...