Gloria Hoyos — Restaurant in Málaga

This used to be my favorite place to go. Unfortunately about a year, year and a half they changed owners. As where the atmosphere used to be great (living room coziness), now it’s just a random style, could be anywhere.

The service was friendly (although they made a mistake by charging me a jar of tinto de verano instead of a glass, but it was corrected smoothly), but the food was just….. okayish. I ordered a Caesar salad. What I got was a watery salad with tomato’s , bacon, too much croutons, lots of breaded chicken pieces and some bland dressing. All and all it had nothing to do with a Cesar salad. I also had a portion of gyoza’s. Also quite bland. They weren’t fried in the pan as they normally are. It seems they forgotten to season the food. I paid 19 euro which for malaga standards is on the high side, especially if you consider the quality.

Most of all I’m disappointed they changed the staff, the interior and menu. It used to be great and it felt like my ‘stamkroeg’ as we say in The Netherlands. The food was awesome and great fusion style cooking. I used to recommend it to all my guests (we rent out an apartment in Malaga). But I have taken it off my recommendation list as there are a lot better places to go to in malaga....

Ate here twice whilst in malaga. First time was around 21.00, it was busy so we had a drink at the bar (comes with olives) and around 15 minutes later they sorted a table for us. We had the house salad (small), one wrong dish (fried aubergine rather than the stir fried veg we ordered), and meatballs with an Indian sauce. Plus a bottle of house red (€8.00).

Because we had an early flight we went at 19.00 the next time, and it was much quieter (that's early in Spain), but again the staff were superb. We had Vietnamese skewers, the house salad, and stir fry vegetables with Iberian pork. Good quality food, very tasty. Waiter and waitress on both nights spoke English, were helpful and attentive when you needed more drinks etc. Both nights the bill came to around €25.

An eclectic crowd, mostly Spanish, definitely some locals who knew the staff.

Heartily...

Wrost place for a nice breakfast... coffee for 2 and 2 ham toast 😩 And very expensive horrible 😕 😢 16 euros for coffe and horrible toast... a normal price a max of 8 euros this is double 😳 The most expensive ever I am from London and this price is ridiculous high do not pay for this prices please need to stop this abused ...look around find better place ridiculous prices and bad quality never again... After talking to the owner apparently is a normal price even cheaper that others places I will see after few days , at this point I am very disappointed with quality and price.... after 5 days in Malaga I can verify this place is just abusing prices on clients and very bad quality, coffe and to toast DO NOT PAY MORE THAT 10 EUROS , a ca recommended EL tapeo bar you can see my others reviews. This one no way I fill that was stilling...