Restaurante Mar y Cel — Restaurant in Ibiza

I have recently had 2 very good meals at Mar y Cel restaurant.

The setting overlooking the beach and the views of Formentera are an added plus.

The first was a traditional seafood paella which we shared. The amount of seafood and fish was quite surprising. Many paellas are mainly rice with a a few prawns, not here. The flavours were amazing. A dish obviously laboured over.

The second meal I had was the Dorada. They cook it over a BBQ (I'm told) and it was fantastic. Very well cooked, moist meat, crispy skin, very flavoursome.

One of the things I hate about ibiza is that there are a plethora of restaurants which charge exorbitant prices for food which is just OK. This is fuelled by tourists which, I guess no fault of their own, just don't know any better. Mar y Cel is an exception to this. Good food, good prices in a...

Reasonable prices and a very nice location, near the sea and in pedestrian area. We had lunch, I ordered spaghetti Bolognese which was average and the portion was medium to small. My husband ordered pizza Meat Feast, but he didn't get it, as they had some problem with the oven. He ordered a Mexican burger after that and he said it was average. The problem was that we waited for the food for too long and the staff didn't speak English, only Spanish, only one waitress could explain to us why we were waiting that much and that they couldn't make pizza. But, they apologized and didn't bill our drinks. I think they must do a little bit of communication with guests and must learn English, just the basic...

Ordered a simple scrambled eggs with feta cheese. Waited and waited and waited some more. Waiter casually tells me (after about 40 mins of waiting) that they must have given my order to another table, no apologies. Waited another 20 mins and tried to be philosophical about the situation, I stay patient and keep looking over, perhaps they will offer me drink or something…no! A puzzled waitress with 2 dishes then brings me one over but it's the wrong order, no apology, no awareness of how terrible the service is and embarrassing for me especially dining solo. After another 2 mins I finally lost patience and walked out. They couldn’t care less and made no attempt to address the situation....