La Vela Azul — Restaurant in Estepona

My family and I, for many years stay at the marriot playa andaluza.. And for many years have came to this 'restaurant' and have been quite satisfied in the past with the food.. The service has never been 100% but this year it has been absolutely appalling and because of this i will never be returning. To start off we sat for about 10 minutes with only 3 out of the 6 of us having menu's, after asking if we could have some more menu's, we waited another 5 minutes, in the end i got them myself. Are ordered was taken, no problems. Are drinks came which we ordered and the coke which three of us had seemed to be flat, which was odd considering it was bottled, we did not complain about this. When the starters came ( only two of us who had starters ) myself and other family memebers asked for bread for the table.. We was presented with one mini roll for one and was slammed down on the table.. Which is just rude and bad service, no one checked if everything was okay with our starters or anything else i can get you etc, or if we would like any other drinks, not attentive what so ever. We then asked for some chips to come with our mains as a side order, this came with the starters, cold and still frozen in the middle, i sent these back saying these were frozen and asked them to come with our mains, which they did not do and brought them over again, hot this time but not when we wanted them. We sent them back again. Two of the mains came, but our starters was still on the table, we then Waited a long time for the other mains to arrive, the sea bass was very small, with no meat on it hardly.. We then told the owner/manager who was just rude about this. Very over priced for the quality we got, which was awful. The owner then carried on to be rude. After our mains we paid and left as soon as we finished are drinks. If you want good for and attentive service, do not go to this 'restaurant' there are plenty of other great restruants close to the marriott such as the robin hood, chile and the solera restaurant in the marriott itself. I could carry on and complain further but why bother as he does clearly not care about his establishment anymore, as when we said we come here for many years and good food he replied with 'no more'

Very dissappinted, if i could give minus stars i would:-)

AVOID AT ANY...

Having seen the mixed reviews on service I can only think this bar has changed hands in the last year and would say the service was more laid back but certainly not rude. There are few sun loungers and umbrellas out the front €5 or free if you eat there, they are not top quality but do the job. We spent a few hours with some drinks before moving to the outside seated area for food just before 5pm, the owner came over and asked if we wanted food as the kitchen shut 5-6.30pm so his staff could have a break and eat, whilst I found this a little strange he was more than happy to take the order. The food was great as was the wine. A nice place to spend a relaxing...

Stumbled on the La Vela Azul when out on a long beach walk, this is a clean quality restaurant, initially I was only going to have a water and a coffee (coffee was very good) The menu looked really good so I ordered the Bream with vedg the Bream was very good, prices are slightly high but you need to expect that from a beautiful beach front location. Fish was great as was the service would come again Beautiful beach and as you can see quite quiet at this time...