Restaurant El Mirador — Restaurant in Ferreries

I ordered the angus hamburger with goat cheese and bacon (its just that, bread, burger, cheese and bacon, nothing else.) & a cheesecake.

The goat cheese is a medium-hard cheese so its quite salty. This is not the usual choice at all for burgers, but hey just so you know (also Its cooked so its physically soft, but that is not that relevant)

The bacon and bread were fine.

The meat itself was extremely salty, it made the hamburguer completely unenjoyable, also the cheese didnt help. Btw I usually love soft goat cheese, this one was medium-hard cheese keep that in mind.

The price was 15€ for that and a couple of fries. I would rather have a 1 dollar burger from mcdonalds and be hungry. Waste of money and nothing good out of it.

The cheesecake is also made with some cheese thats too salty for the usual cheeses used for cheesecakes (it basically tastes way less sweet and way more like cheese), I do prefer that, but I believe most people dont, anyway, despite that I also could not enjoy at all the cheesecake because the bottom and the side was burnt, heavily burnt so it affected the taste a lot.

The price was 5.7€ and yeah pretty much also a waste of money.

Moreover, for those interested in covid-19, I couldnt care less if the staff chose either to wear or not to wear masks, but they chose to wear them with the nose out, this beats its purpose, so thats pretty dumb, In my opinion, in that case dont wear it, I would understand (maybe others wont) but wearing them partly its pretty dumb.

The view is not special at all.

Long wait times.

I usually dont have this...

Having noticed it’s prime location over the bay, we thought we would chance a meal here, despite the relatively low rating.

Earlier in the day we booked our table for 8:30.

On arrival, we were taken to our table which had a perfect sea view. My brother and I ventured into the cave which is a fun quirk to the restaurant and a nice spot for a photo.

We ordered a bottle of cava and 3 tapas dishes to share. I remember that the garlic prawns were particularly good and the staff themselves suggested we ordered some bread to soak up the garlic. We also had octopus and croquettes.

We had a bottle of sauviginion blanc with our mains. My wife and I had shellfish paela and my brother had scorpion fish. We all enjoyed our food which was made all the better by the view.

We perhaps should have ordered one of the homemade deserts as although I enjoyed my coffee ice cream desert, the rest of my family felt this was the weakest of our courses.

The cost of our meal was just under £50pp and we felt this represented 5 star value, given the service, location and quality...

Great location overlooking the water (it can get chilly if seated on the outer tables and there is a wind!) Food was very good. Goat’s cheese salad a good choice of a shared starter and Iberico ham croquettes. Found the paella a bit salty, compared to those others in other Cala Galdana restaurants. Other reviews have mentioned prices €€€€… this is not the cheapest place to eat but not the most expensive (at the Meliá) in town, but if you look at what you get for some plates, then yes, value for money is a question mark. Others have also mentioned waiter service….the waiter service was not as good in some of the other restaurants we ate in. Does not help that of course that human touch is lost a bit through the face masks because of Covid-19. They were still functional, without that warm glow on being looked after as a valued customer, and from time to time we had to look up and catch them to ask for something. Still, a very enjoyable meal. We get well fed and ‘watered’ , and would visit again. Ate there three times for dinner during our...