The Colibri Restaurant — Restaurant in Arona

After years of dining here and enjoying food so good it could make Gordon Ramsay cry happy tears, yesterday’s visit felt more like a prank episode of Kitchen Nightmares: Chemical Warfare Edition.

Our family of three ordered what should’ve been a safe spread: a burger, seafood pasta, and tuna with Canarian potatoes. Instead, it was as if the chef had enrolled in Hogwarts and majored in Potion Making for Beginners.

The burger? Bland enough to make cardboard feel smug. The tuna and potatoes? They arrived with a suspiciously “springtime floral” scent, as though they’d been marinated in Febreze. The taste was equal parts Mr. Muscle and Eau de Dishwasher, leaving my sister and brother-in-law with singed mouths and my poor brother-in-law testing the “emergency exit” capabilities of his digestive system for the rest of the day.

Not the usual experience at this restaurant—we usually leave with happy bellies, not chemical burns and trauma. Very...

It is fabulous restaurant, you are literally sitting 10m from the ocean, watching local surfers jumping wave's.... Very good choice of seefood, massive Glass fridge, where you can see and pick your fish, Crab, octopus and lot more. Menu has everything, from local food, to worlds classics. We had, octopus and squid for a starter, fresh baked bread, trio off sauces, Moho....... Following, see food selection for two, and Tenerife style chicken with chips, Tenerife potatoes and salad. Pint off beer, 1L jug off sangria, gin& tonic.... After meal we where given shot off Honey run each, on house. Bill came to 71 eiro..... It was best meal out we had in 10...

Honestly, it was the worst seafood experience on the entire island. We first ordered grilled calamari, which was incredibly tough and literally made us gag while eating it. After reporting this, they offered us calamari in oil. We received seven rings of calamari fried in burnt oil, with no sauce or side dishes. The view from the restaurant redeems the situation, but if you're going there for a meal, I highly recommend against it. Something like that for 15 euros per portion is, in my opinion, a gross exaggeration. Writing this review, my stomach still hurts from the burnt oil, which probably hasn't been replaced for days. The staff doesn't...