Bar Las Termas del Pincho — Restaurant in Cartagena

I tried couple of their tapas, like the octopus, the fried duck, the squid, the croquettes, the stuffed pepper, the artichokes and 1 main course which is the fried cod. Calamar a la Andaluza or the Andalusian squid best one along with the croquettes. It is perfectly salty, deep fried perfection. The Crujiente de pato aka crispy duck is indeed crispy and good but just intensely sweet, like super crunchy with sticky sweet, it is a bit confusing. The Alcachofas a la plancha con aceite de trufa , jamón y parmesano aka Grilled artichokes with truffle oil, ham and parmesan cheese is a seasonal product which I am not a big fan of becauseit's a bit sour? The Pulpo a la Cartagenera aka Cartagenera style octopus is fine, not too soft but not too chewy, it looked small but actually you got a good amount of meat in there. The Tacos de bacalao frito con cebolla confitada, piñones y peras al vino aka Fried cod cubes with glazed onion, pine nuts and pears in wine is fried to perfection and the fish is so flaky and not fishy at all, the batter is a little bit too salty to my liking, but the onion that comes with it is suuuuper sweet and I don't think they goes well together. Pimientos rellenos de rabo de novillo con salsa de hongos y foie aka Peppers stuffed with young bull tail with mushrooms and foie sauce is actually soo good and creamy, but I wasn't a big fan of goat cheese so I really didn't like this one, but if you enjoy goat cheese than I do recommend getting it. The menus are digital with QR scan, and they have English menu so that's very helpful. The waiter wasn't the most friendly but he is quite helpful. Copy this link for their menu...

We were excited to try this place, but it was so bad that it was almost funny. The artichokes were one of the best dishes we’ve ever had but that was the only highlight. The tortilla was so salty we could barely eat it and I’m used to salty food. The bread had the texture and taste of plastic. They gave our croquettes to another table despite us waving that they were ours. The octopus that looks delicious in the photos was burned and so rubbery you couldn’t stab with a fork. We sent it back which I’ve never done literally in my life. We just wanted to leave because it was so terrible so we went to the bar to pay and we missed that they charged us for 2 huge bottles of water when we only got 1. In the end, they fixed all the errors and waived the charges for the octopus and the extra water, but it still it was a bad experience.

1 star for them trying to remedy the mistakes and 1 for the artichokes, but no chance I’d eat here again or...

Good quality Spanish food in an authentic setting. We went at lunch time and I had the menu del dia at €12.50 each. I started with a pastel de gambas, a tasty slab of prawn pate come mouse mixed with vegetables. This was followed by sword fish with salsa and ending with milky bread pudding. I had a jarre of beer which was served well in an ice cold jug. My wife had to have the gluten-free options I'm pleased with old labeled as they supplied an in-house booklet that listed any allergens contained in the food. How is it was a nice experience and they have a good selection of tapas that is different and better quality than most cafes in the area. Perhaps my only criticism would be that the service was quite slow as others have commented but we were not in a rush and you can only say the Waiters...