La Mar Bella — Restaurant in Barcelona

Just sharing my experience, end of May 2021:

ordered a mixed fish and meat paella receiving a seafood paella instead (while when ordering we expressly discussed I don't like mariscos/seafood) we tell it's not what we ordered the waiter agrees (!) but defends (!!) the meal he brought to us at the table another waiter comes and acknowledge this is not what we ordered, and proposed to make a steak if I want meat (not a paella of course, just a piece of meat (!) ). we kept the seafood paella, and I ate only the rice... no reduction on the bill, no drinks offered or...

This is a very local restaurant, especially in the off season when the masses of tourists and beach-goers aren’t around. They have a, let’s say, hearty and weekday fixed price menu that is well worth it, but make sure you’re hungry. Otherwise, they offer the usual, good warm Spanish sandwiches and tapas. Staff during the regular year are generally a happy and helpful lot. Don’t expect fancy English, though: this is a Spanish place. Even if it’s close to the beach, it’s been around for years, unlike a lot of the nearby places. There’s a...

Terrible service, we had to wait to get the menus for more than 15 min, then another 10+ to order and apparently, the waiter told us we can’t get one paella, you can order only two and can’t even make them different, even if all 3 of us wanted different dishes. The price is €13 per person, but the text saying you can only order two paellas is somewhere at the bottom of the menu and of course it’s super small. Guess what, at the end it comes as a one regular size plate for €27! Not the best sangria was spilled by the waiter...