Restaurante El Balcón de Cotobro — Restaurant in Almuñécar

Amazing location, right in front of the ocean. It is the perfect spot to watch the sunset and have a glass of wine and some chilled time. However, do not expect much of the service as the staff are very slow and not very helpful. When we visited the place there were only 3 tables busy and still it took AGES to get a cheese board platter. The interesting thing is that once we received it, the waiter started to pressure to bring the menu and we wanted to enjoy the cheese and wine first. When the main course came, the food was very well presented and appealing, however it was already cold, especially the steak. After this, we decided to leave, the food was packed to go and we left the place very disappointed. It seems like a the owner is a blond lady who was not very happy when I requested a proper invoice before leaving. It was already late and she was taking very long to issue the invoice with a poor body language and she was wearing sunglasses which does not feel like a cool approach to deal with clients in the night time. I would return to the place only for drinks and chill based on the beautiful location, but for food and service, I guess I would not take...

Loved this restaurant. We went for dinner on a Wednesday night with a group of 7. We had a table in the area that's on the beach and the atmosphere was amazing. The olives here are great. They gave us bread (and charged us for it later which is apparently quite standard around here?). We asked for olive oil to go with the bread and got these cute little mini bottles or olive oil to use. Service was prompt and friendly. Meals all arrived together which was great. The semidulce white wine was delicious. I ordered the prime rib steak medium and sadly it came well done and the meat was very tough. But that's how these things go sometimes. My partner got the same thing and had his medium rare and it was perfect. Overall a great place to come for...

We seven did not have a great experience here . The service was very poor as there were not sufficient staff . We arrived at 2 pm and two hours later we got our main course. The food was not exciting even though the prices were not cheap. We shared a warm tapas starter which was the best part of the meal. Main courses were of Duck, Lamb and chicken . All were lukewarm or cold. We decided not to have deserts or coffee and left rather...