Bar Restaurante El Cine — Restaurant in Arona

Visited here on a Friday lunchtime. Got there just in time to get the last table without waiting. Thereafter, as others have mentioned they queue down the alleyway. Quite a noisy bustling sort of place, with lots of Spanish people. Limited choice as expected. Sea food only (though they do as as a sop, chicken wings for those who don't like fish). I chose fried octopus. This was a whole octopus and was a generous portion. I thought mine was tasty. My partner chose grilled hake. She said it was ok, and I have to admit looking at it and tasting it, I've had much better elsewhere in Spain and Portugal. These were only €8 or €8.50. We had a portion of canarian potatoes and fries and some bread. Couldn't eat all the potato and bread - too much. They also did a rather nice Dorado Especiale beer. So I had two. I'd eat herr again, but wouldn't chose the hake, which surprisingly given the ratings on here, we were suitably underwhelmed about. As regards the waiters, they seemed happy enough, sort of highly efficient. I didn't...

Great food ruined by horrible service. Whilst placing our order, we ordered a dish and was told by (who I assume) to be the owner, that it would be "too much" we still requested it to be made and as it was the only thing on the menu that one of our group could eat. The dish didn't come, and on arrival of the bill we questioned the server, and he said he thought it was best we didn't have it. When we had finished and paid for our meals, we were finishing our wine when a different waiter came up to us and requested we leave to accommodate new arrivals, this is atrocious as we had paid for 5+ over priced dishes and wanted to finish our drinks. When we said we would leave in 5 minutes, said server was seen looking in our direction and shaking his head with the new arrivals, implying disapproval at our presence. We even requested butter for our completely dry bread and was refused. Do not eat here if you wish to be treated as a burden and rushed to...

Rude staff, very ignorant. Very poor customer service, you don't see anyone smile. I know it gets busy but it takes a smile to greet customers to make the experience even better. We have been told off that we sat at empty table, two couples walked after us and because we have been told that we should have waited to be seated, they sat two couples before us. It was lunch time so there were empty tables, so don't know what difference it made where we sat. We didn't order drinks so we have been ignored again. The waiter asked for drinks and we said we would like to order food so he walked away second one did exactly the same. We waited for good 15 minutes to order food. Food was good but nothing special. Just ordinary, nothing stood out. I would say the place is...