Restaurant El Barretet — Restaurant in Castellet i la Gornal

We made a table reservation a day before, but when we arrived they were not aware. After 10 more minutes, they finally decided to prepare a table for us. Once we sat it took again some time before the waitress finally came with 2 menu's only and she refused to reply to our spanish and persisted talking Catalan only. When we wanted the wine card, she went and didn't come back. After 20 more minutes of waiting, we decided that this was not the place to be and left. Several other tables were also waiting in despair already for a long time too. No wonder with only one waitress for a double outside terrace. By the way, the photo's of the terrace have been nicely pimped up with photoshop, so'll probably that goes for the photo's of...

Nice view, but awful service. We were waiting for the waitress as we saw people around us getting service for 10 minutes. Finally when the waitress came, only thing she had to say was that the table we were sitting at was reserved although there was no sign of that on the table. We changed the table, waited for another 10 minutes, then ordered the drinks only to wait 10 more minutes and one of the drinks we ordered was not even served. We had been waiting for the bill we asked for 10 more minutes when we decided to go and just left the amount of money we assumed the drinks cost on the table. Thinking back, should not have...

Good menú del día. I had paella (they offer it for one which is unusual and great as my husband is allergic) which was fabulous. Moules to start - slightly undercooked as many hadn't opened - and an OK almond cake to finish. Bread and drinks included. The only real negative was that it was a lovely sunny day, so we asked to sit in the sunny terrace, but no, we had to sit in the shaded covered terrace which in February was absolutely freezing and we ate as quickly as possible. Quite why the sunny terrace was...