El Mayeq Restaurante — Restaurant in Adeje

We saw a high rating and decided to go to the restaurant (spoiler: I don't recommend it).

The menu is a 2-page book, although the book has pages in 6 other languages. The wine menu is located via a QR code that is brought to the table, but the page with the menu did not open, we asked for a password for the Wi-Fi, they brought a QR to connect to the Wi-Fi, but we could not connect, we decided to order without a menu.

The food was mediocre, there was nothing super cool, the rating is clearly overpriced, in reality it was somewhere around 4.5.

There was also an unpleasant incident that happened, a table sat next to us, and the cook (or assistant in the kitchen) brings out the dish that we ordered, to the table where the company had just arrived, the dish stands for 10 minutes at someone else's table, they touch the food, look, cough. After 10 minutes, the waiter comes to this table and says, oh, sorry, this is not your food and transfers it to our table, this all happens before our eyes. (The waiter did the wrong thing! Such food should be put away in the kitchen, and then (if it has cooled down, or something is wrong with it, it should be redone with a new one!!! And not put from one table to another!) In general, I will not come again, it left an...

Dined here tonight, feeling absolutely ripped off. I don’t mind paying good money when the food and service warrant it but there’s nothing worse than feeling like you’ve been cheated and wasted your money. Ordered the stuffed salmon dish. Was supposed to be stuffed with bacon and Gorgonzola. After a 45 minute wait it came and was raw on the inside. Sent back to the kitchen for a fresh meal which came, had the same vegetables and potato cake on the side, new bit of salmon that was hard and over cooked, no bacon inside, just a tiny bit of ham and no Gorgonzola. Highlighted this to the waiter, he was nothing but uninterested and kept stating it’s fresh it’s fresh. Yes it was maybe a fresh bit of salmon but it was over cooked. Don’t waste your time or money on this restaurant. The service was crap, there was zero accountability for substandard food and by the way… you need someone in the kitchen who knows...

Food was well presented. We had 3 tapas starters and a Paella to share for the main. The protein in everything was cooked very well, but everything just lacked seasoning - which makes a big difference to the overall taste. I normally go easy on the salt in my cooking, so for me to think it lacked it says something. And I also saw another couple salting their dishes after they tried theirs too. We had calamari (squid well cooked, but tempura batter was oily), chicken&veg (spring) rolls (just no real flavour and the sauce was just extremely sweet) and croquettes (more cheese than potato, but they were lovely). And the pork cheek Paella (melt in your mouth). We were served one starter incorrectly, but they were apologetic and brought out the correct one 5 mins later...