La Central de Cambrils — Restaurant in Cambrils

If you aren’t their type, don’t bother.

We arrived 1hr before a Barcelona game and asked if we were okay to sit at a table near their screen. The nice waitress said yes so went inside to order drinks. Ignored for a while (despite the bar being empty!) but friendly bar man finally arrived and we ordered €20 of drinks for our young family. Half ways through our drinks, a reserved sign was put on the table without explanation or apology. I went to the bar to ask what was happening and the waitress apologised at this point and said we could move tables. No real problem, but checked if it was okay to sit at a different table with a side view of the screen and she said it was. I smiled and moved our things. 15mins later and now literally 10mins before kick off, just as I try to order more drinks and some food for us, the manager comes over and puts another reserved sign on our table again without saying a word. Didn’t even look at us! The waitress looked very embarrassed and gestured she was sorry from afar before quickly going inside. Manager then wouldn’t even speak to us! As we left, he was quick to rush over and clean the table though.

I appreciate we are English but we visit Cambrils regularly and try to speak basic Spanish so some attempt by them to talk to us would’ve been appreciated given we were polite and friendly throughout. Upon reading other reviews now, it seems they have a certain ‘fit’ so they’ll take your money when it’s quiet and treat you poorly when they want the table back.

If they had said it was reserved at the start - totally fine - but they made up the rules as they went along so now there was nowhere else to watch the game that late on because every bar was packed!

Basically, when we’re back, we’ll be sure not to visit this bar again or bring friends if this is how they consistently treat...

Seemed a nice place to stop and have a drink outside on a quiet warm night. After finishing our drinks, I went back into the bar looking for another drink only to be told they had no more Estrella on draught and they could only sell me bottles. Strange that this happened on a night when they were not busy, probably only 10-12 other people in the bar. Reckon it was because we were not their "type of client", not in our 20s! Plenty of other nicer spots to try out in the town who will be happy to serve whatever...

NO RECOMENDADO ¿Por dónde empiezo? Os cuento mi experiencia. Servicio MUY lento (y eso si tienes suerte y te atienden) Uno de los camareros era simpático, el otro, directamente ni hablaba. Este segundo camarero sólo atendía a una mesa de unas 6/8 personas (sus amigos), había una mesa que estaba relativamente cerca y estaban esperando a ser atendidos.. así que los que estaban esperando le metieron un grito, ya que estaba "jiji jaja" con sus amiguetes. A nosotros, tampoco nos atendía, y a lo que lo llamamos no dijo ni pio, sólo nos miró a la espera de saber que queríamos.

Añadir que este segundo camarero, se tomó un chupito en su jornada laboral con sus amiguetes, mal servicio y encima con sus amigos (y tengo ciertas dudas de que les cobrara... ya que en terraza y por la noche cobran al momento)

Otra cosa más en mi super-experienca en este "bar" es que directamente te apagan la luz de la terraza, dejándote a oscuras. ¿Tanto cuesta decir "en unos minutos apagaremos las luces"? no, directamente te dejan a oscuras.. como te cobran sólo al servirte, luego "ajo y agua".

Decepcionante, no...