Restaurante Bienmesabe Santa María — Restaurant in Antequera

I really want to give this place 5 stars. The food is very good. But some portions are less than tapas size and most less than medio. My husband had the pork cheeks at €12. Two tiny cheeks and a tiny artistic smear of sweet potato. As delicious as it was it would not have fed a child let alone a grown man. I specifically asked if the menu was tapas/raciones and was told 'entera' so leads you to belive main course size. We shared a noodle dish as a starter, again very good as was my octopus. The service was shambolic - I had to ask 3 times for a menu and twice for water. A drinks order was forgotten and needed reminding. We had to ask for napkins. If the menu is designed as a tapas tasting menu they need to be clear. If it isn't, they need to be clear about that too. In addition to the girl behind the bar, and a very polite young man who helped serve, there was 4 waiting staff. Fair enough 2 waiting inside and 2 outside, but it wasn't particularly busy and the service really ought to have been better. Overall,...

Great location/views outside - provided you know how to get there through very narrow streets and find a parking space that doesn't involve a good walk. Went for lunch to test for dinner party with friends from Murcia. Thank goodness! Inside up some steep stairs to dining room with no atmosphere. Food was average to poor with two of our four dishes heavily over salted. One was offered as being a Gambas dish, (I thought 4 small Gambas was testing the description to the extreme). The shared salad to start was also skimped in terms of supposedly including dates. Maybe two, shredded, would be an exaggeration. And no-one enquired if everything was ok or if we had enjoyed our meal! I wonder why. Looking elsewhere for our...

La terracita genial, la planta de arriba no la pude ver por estar reservada. Bar bastante ruidoso, recomendaría colgar algún tapiz para absorber algo de los ruidos. La comida genial, muy rica y bien presentado, la unica queja seria que hay poca cantidad en los platos lo cual hace que sea un lugar caro. Una ensaladilla rusa no es un plato caro y se come en cualquier tasca por debajo de los 5€ y aqui lo veo caro 7:50€. Obvio se paga el emplazamiento justo al lado de la Alcazaba. La camarera super simpática y servicial, el dia que estuvimos un poco lento el servicio pero se debia a que tenían una reserva grande en el restaurante e iban muy agobiados. Al buscar el lugar no venia en el mapa google así que no pude opinar hace dos semanas, pero veo que alguien ya añadió el sitio. En general un sitio al que volvería a comer ya que la comida está muy buena y cocinado con cariño. Una felicitación en toda regla para el cocinero. Los callos geniales con unos mini garbanzos que estaban riquisimos. El sitio es acertado para un restaurante, suerte en vuestra nueva empresa y espero volveros a visitar la próxima vez que...