Olave — Restaurant in Castelldefels

Sorry but the food was not ok. Details below Shrimp croquettes tasted like cheese (see below details) Navajas clams were hard (a bit uncooked) Fired shrimp was uncleaned. It had the hard shell and black intestine. No menu for drinks.

I talked to the staff (waiter & cooks) about these and the answers were bad also. There is no drinks menu with prices and there is no motive. Is that legal to not have prices on drinks displayed anywhere? Clams were hard. I asked the cooks and the said they cook the clamps only 5 minutes in a grill. Should also be boiled a bit. The cooks said I could ask if I wanted a different way of cooking. Is their responsibility to cook the food right, not mine as I am a client. Shrimp croquettes don't have the shrimp as a primary ingredient so it can't be called shrimp. The taste was like cheese. One cook said he made that dish with butter and there is no cheese. So we know that the cheese tastes comes from old butter then. Also should be called croquettes with shrimp not shrimp croquettes based on the primary content. Cooks didn't want to taste the croquettes. 3 out of the 4 were untouched but they didn't tasted it. How can you prepare food for a paying client and not wanting to taste it? Fried shrimp wasn't cleaned. Why you make fried shrimp with flower and cook in oil? To be crispy. How it can be crispy when I need to remove the crisp with the shell? Cooks said this is how is done here... has no sense. If something is done in a wrong manner all over the place, is not an excuse to do it yourself. Payed the full note, around 76 euros. No one tried to offer any discount.

Sorry guys, you have semi-cooks there. They need to be...

We have been meaning to try this place out for a while now. It could have been five stars, but there were certain things that were slightly off-putting, and the festaurant doesn’t necessarily have control over some of them - for example, how noisy it was inside. Our waiter was great, only thing was, in the menu there were options for every item to be served either 1/2 portion or 1 whole. It was probably my fault I forgot to specify which one we wanted as we received whole for each we ordered, so of course the more expensive portion. But also, he could have warned me and asked us which of the two sizes we prefer. Another thing was that we ordered shrimp in garlic, and they were very tasty, served as they should be, peeled and everything. But the other type of shrimp we ordered, gambitas blancas (fritas) were a bit less satisfactory as they weren’t peeled and they didn’t taste as good as the former. Regardless, the calamari a la romana were fantastic, as well as the black vermut. All in all, a pretty good place to have...

Llamamos para reservar y nos comentan que no reservan, aunque es absurdo y más en tiempos de Covid, porque cuando llegas te cogen el nombre y has de esperar de 20 min a 40 min, que al final resultaron 55, acumulándose los clientes, sin ningún control de distancia de seguridad, pero para nosotros lo más grave fue que en la llamada preguntamos y el Sr. José que atendió al teléfono nos dijo que no había menú diario, pero que si había menú degustación que vale 36e o comer de carta. Llamamos a las 13.02 horas. Nos presentamos a las 14 y nos sientan a las 14.55. La sorpresa fue que cuando pedimos el menú degustación nos dicen que no lo sirven, que solo carta. Al explicar lo ocurrido aparece el Sr. José, que es la persona que nos informó por teléfono y nos negó habernos dicho eso. Nos dejó de mentirosos. En ningún momento empatizo con nosotros e intentando solucionar dicho "mal entendido". Entiendo que la Covid ha hecho mucho daño en el ramo de la restauración, pero engañando al cliente no es la manera de intentar recuperar el dinero del tiempo que han estado cerrados. Han aprovechado que estábamos en la mesa sentados después de 55 minutos, para decir que no servían dicho menú. Resumiendo un menú que valía 36e con 5 tapas para picar un plato principal a escoger postre y bebida, nos hubiera costado 118e, y de esta manera pagamos 145e probando solo 3 tapas, ya que éramos 3 comensales y un plato principal y vino. Sin postres. Ya estábamos a disgusto. Las tallarinas estaban buenas pero con algo de tierra. Y ojo pedimos pan y luego quisimos repetir y la factura nos pusieron pan 2,20e x3 y luego pan 2,20e x3, es decir 13,20e solo de pan. Moraleja: "PAN PARA HOY, HAMBRE...