Bar restaurante Botafumeiro — Restaurant in Benidorm

DEEP disappointment… I rarely leave reviews, but this experience deserves a WARNING to others.

From the moment the food arrived, the disappointment was palpable. Everything—and I mean everything—was frozen. The fish, the seafood, the pizza, even the tortillas tasted like they had come straight from a supermarket freezer. Not even the simplest dishes had a hint of freshness.

Shocked, I politely mentioned my surprise to the owner, only to be met with a baffling response: “You didn’t ask me if it was fresh.” Seriously? In what world does a customer need to explicitly ask whether a restaurant serves fresh food? That should be the baseline, not an optional upgrade.

To make things worse, the prices were outrageously high—as if we were being served high-quality cuisine, not microwaved meals. We left feeling like we had been completely taken advantage of — on s’est sentis arnaqués, extrêmement.

If you care about quality, value, or just basic honesty from a restaurant, do yourself a favor and...

Please don’t trust all the positive reviews here, many of them seem to be paid! We were a group of 8 and ordered 10 different dishes, but none of them were edible. The kids’ pizzas were frozen and undercooked, while the sea food was simply disgusting. The seafood lacked any flavor, and the shrimp dish only had about 10 tiny shrimp drowning in a liter of oil! I’ve eaten at many places in Benidorm and all over Spain, including Valencia, and I've never had such a terrible experience with food or service. This is definitely not representative of true Spanish cuisine...

Highly bad ratio price/quality for eating. Very poor cooking, both fish we took were frozen, fries too. Less than 100gr of shrimp as starter for 15€.Canned olives. I didn't recommend at all. In addition, when it comes time to add up, they laugh even though we said it wasn't good. You have to flee. EDIT after answer of owner: he's lying, We didn't eat the dishes because it was so disgusting we only took fish to give to street cats to save waste and they see that. There the proof we had diner with Uber eats for the same night in the...