Restaurant Arab Halal Marràkech — Restaurant in Barcelona

My previous review was deleted after I got the owner mad when i refered to the fact he calls his restaurant halal, but serves alcohol - which is, according to him, normal, because its Europe.. Thats why I will choose my words more carefully, cause according to google's understanding, I cannot object to 'alcohol being halal in Europe'..

Pls avoid this restaurant if you want to eat halal, they serve alcohol.

The interior is nice and not really overcrowded. I wasnt able to taste the food bc they serve alcohol, so cannot comment on that.

Edit: Dear Owner, I live abroad and was in Barcelona for business. To be able to eat halal, I traveled some distance to your place. I entered, gave a salaam and after seeing the bar, I asked whether alcohol was served or not, after hearing it was served, i left the place and found a pakistani restaurant that doesnt serve alcohol. I dont know who you are talking about, but your story once more confirms that the name you use is misleading..

I am in no place to judge you, you can sell whatever you want. I traveled miles to come and eat at your place, since the reviews are high etc, if I knew you served alcohol, I wouldnt. And with my review, I just want to share my experience with others why might getting mislead by the name of your business.

And before your complain at google and this gets deleted again - imagine you name your restaurant 'Restaurant Arab Vegan Marrakech', but sell meat, what a abomination...

Summary: Extremely overpriced for pathetic food quality and bad service. Add on that some scare tactics when some of us left a review (continue reading for more).

Food: 27.5 eur menu of the day was the only thing that we could order, at 8 pm. It was just horrible and small portions. I ordered taktouka which wasnt great, and a lemon chicken that gave me depression. It was completely dry and tasteless, with some soggy fries thrown on top of it.

Service: Extremely bad. Would never go there again. They try to make money out of every small thing, even when the menu is already overpriced. And at the end they asked us to pay in cash (probably to avoid declaring and taxes, let's see what the tax authorities think about that), we said we didnt have, then they asked for one of us to pay everything by card, and the rest do transfers for the one who paid. Only when we insisted, they agreed to do multiple card transactions for each.

But the absolutely worst unacceptable thing about it is they cannot accept a review. The restaurant sent one of us angry voice messages the next day talking because 2 of us left a bad review. And replying to the honest reviews that we they are false and we didn't even eat in the restaurant. If I could give 0 stars, I would. Shame on you. Before you say we didnt eat there, here is a...

A party of 8 of us had walked in as we were touring Barcelona that day. We sat down for 20 mins after which the waiter came and took our order. As we were ordering we made it clear we are only going to be ordering mains as we still had the whole day ahead of us, so didny want to spend too much time there. The waiter took our mains order then proceeded to ask if we wanted salad along side our mains. The way the waiter spoke it was as if the salad is included with the mains. Half of us said no whilst the other half said yes. All 8 of us were all presented with salads which none of us ate it as it wasn't nice, with raw onions. Food was substandard. It took ages for the food to come out. We did notice they were giving food out to people who had ordered a lot later than us. Which was disappointing. In the end they had charged us 4 euros per salad as a starter even though we made it clear that we didn't want a starter, also half of us didn't even order it . 32 euro for salad which we didnt even order was frustrating. We felt as if we were mugged just because we were tourists and we didnt speak the language. Wouldn't ever...