Pintarroja Menorca — Restaurant in es Castell

We had chosen the Pintarroja restaurant for our last evening on the island because we dreamed of eating there and it was a disaster. We had booked during the day for 10:30 p.m. and we got the table at 11 p.m. As an apology, we were given a small beer when we would have preferred to choose a drink that we wanted. The rest of the dinner was a disaster: at the beginning of the order, we were warned that we had to order everything immediately because the kitchen closes at 11 p.m....😡. We asked for a wine from the island and were served a simple French wine that we paid €34 for… 🤯… We were served scallops and the plates were served to us even though we had finished the scallops so as not to eat them cold… throughout the meal, they cleared away the plates as soon as we had finished them because they were in such a hurry to close… finally at 00:15, we ordered a dessert because after 4 dishes that were so small for 2 we were still hungry… Frankly, we are not the annoying type but there, for our last romantic dinner, we would have dreamed of much better…

Another piece of information that I just discovered: this restaurant was recommended to me by the Barcelo Hamilton Menorca hotel and when paying for the restaurant, I noticed that the credit card came out in the same name as the hotel 😳It's a shame because we also had problems in this hotel and yet we are not the...

We decided to eat here on our 3rd night and after reading other reviews we weren't sure what it would be like as mostly excellent reviews but one or two poor? Well from our enquiring if they had a table, most tables were reserved, to who we thought was the head waiter, I didn't get his name, to every aspect of the service all I can say is excellent and so friendly. We had tomato bread, ham croquettes, bikini de sobrasada, green salad, mussells with sobrasada and the chocolate cake washed down with an excellent red for me and rose for my wife. All of the above were served by Danny. First he is an absolute credit to the restaurant, top notch young man and waiter. Second the food was excellent, no complaints from us. Would we go back? Yes we would, thank you Pintarroja Menorca and of...

Perhaps a victim of its own success, clearly very popular but lacking in areas. The food is pretty good - seafood particularly - but relatively poor elsewhere. Service was somehow extremely chaotic whilst bafflingly casual at times. We really wanted to give this place the benefit of the doubt, as the manager was clearly trying to hold the ship together despite the apparent ineptitude around him, although there comes a point where you must call a spade a spade. I am fully aware that everyone has bad days and this was obviously one of theirs, but between missed courses, long wait times, and general chaos at a price point towards the premium end for the town, we were disappointed by...