EL BREZAL — Restaurant in Arona

My wife and I checked out the reviews before deciding to visit this restaurant. On arrival we were met by a cheerful waitress who asked us if we wanted to sit inside or out, we wanted to be outside. The only table available had the debris of the earlier diners on it, including stains on the tablecloth. We sat down at this table and the cutlery was taken away leaving us sat at a completely empty table, which is how it stayed. I ordered fried camembert as a starter, which arrived in a huge dish which made the 4 slices of cheese look lost. I was furnished with a knife and fork as the dish arrived, but the cheese was luke warm. We ordered the entrecote steaks, my wife chose the pepper sauce with hers and I chose the straight fried steak on its own. We selected the potatoes rather than chips. My steak was very thin but cooked medium/rare as I wanted, I suspect that it had been frozen as no blood came out of it. It was ok but nothing special. The baked potato was the smallest I have ever seen and as dry as a bone, the 'veg' was cabbage, 1 slice of carrot and a single slice of red pepper. All together the veg was bland. The boiled Canarian potatoes that came on a side dish were tasteless and disappointing.

Overall we were disappointed after reading so many positive reviews.

It just goes to show how everyone has different standards when it...

I had seen a few reviews on TripAdvisor, but not enough to make up my mind either way whether to give this restaurant a try. I am VERY glad that I did. Absolutely delicious. The set menu is by far possibly the best value I have ever had. The garlic bruchetta starter was outstanding, juicy fresh tomatoes, and creamy mozzarella.

The entrocote steak was cooked to perfection. The waiter said it was akin to sirloin, I would say more like ribeye, with caramelised fat veins, which produced a lovely flavour. There is fat on this steak, be aware, it is not fillet! The flavour is just too notch, with real chips, not frozen.

The desert was a slice of warm spiced apple crumble cake with cream and ice cream. I will have pleasant dreams about that desert for a long time to come.

With this I had a pint of Dorada and a VERY large freepoured Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic, and my entire bill came to €16.

Outstanding value, delicious food, excellent service and I will most definitely return.

Do not...

DO NOT GO TO THERE, they are scamming if you are not speaking fluently spain. First of all you can’t order everything from the menu, because they are telling that they dont have ingredients. They dropped our food on the dirty table while serving and they just washed the steak without making a new one. When we wanted to pay they told us that the card reader is broken and that we can only pay with cash. We didnt have a cash with us that much that we could have paid the whole meal. So they took us in the atm but the foreign card reader couldnt read our phones card so, they took us to ”his friend restaurant” where the card reader worked. There they tried to charger us more than the orginal price. After we complained the guy firstly tried to say that he was right and that amount was right. But after showing the first recipt he said that he will give us our money back”. So guys DO NOT...