Restaurante Rompeolas — Restaurant in Málaga

Rest and rant!

This establishment leaves a lot to be desired and its hard to portray the true unprofessional attitude via a review but here goes

Seated We found a seat and waited for a person who looked like they might work there, we were half right, they shouted to a group of similarly dressed individuals who were all smoking. Bear in mind, this was around 5.30pm where the Spanish come back from the siesta at 5pm.

The individual put the cigarette out, approached us and when sufficiently close, proceeded to deafen us with some Spanish lingo not directed at our group of 5 adults and 1 child but back to his colleagues enjoyingtheir cigarette.

We asked for 2 still waters and one mineral. The others ordered Tinto Verano. The waiter bought back 1 pichet of Tinto Verano, 1 still water and 2 mineral. I decided to accept the change as I wanted to proceed with the order.

We asked for the menu and he pointed to a wall with a QR code. No speech, just pointing. In our group we had people who spoke, French, Spanish, English and even Serbian so speaking would have been option.

Service

We all ordered after being told much of what we're wanted to order wasn't available,in an intolorent manner, things like anchovies and some fish.

I ordered steak, I always do, and the others various dishes.

The meals came back but one of the meals came back, a sea food dish and this had anchovies! My meal was , port steaks, when we pointed out I had ordered steak a little fiery conversation ensued where he pointed to his mobile ordering system.

One interesting way of service though, they put the plates all near me and we had to distribute it around the table!

The drinks also had a glass missing so we chose which person would drink from a previous glass of our earlier 1st drink.

Even the ice cream for our child was different that what he would have liked.

When they cleared up, they stood in one place and, well, pointed to the dishes so we would hand them to the place near the table to waiter was rooted to. He only moved once he had all the plates.

Even the surroundings, a few drunks, lots of dogs and the whole thing felt like a horrible experience.

When we asked for the cheque, they were banging all the seats around us like they were going home but when I asked, they were just starting....

To sum up, go there if you don't mind rudeness, wrong...

"There are a lot of better places to go, just a couple hundred meters away"

The slowest service I’ve ever experienced, even with only about 10 guests, they spent about 40 minutes before and after my meal never obtaining eyecontact, and I had no way of showing I wanted to order/pay.

The food was actually delicious, but when paying 18€ in Spain I expect to get enough food to at least not make it feel like I could have another portion. Way to small servings on the medium prawns.

But what makes this review as low as 2 stars is that while they apologized I noticed the bill had bread on it, even though I hadn’t even gotten bread on my table even once, so they apologized once more and brought me a drink. I appretiate the gesture, but I’m 17, they served me a god damn alcoholic drink without asking for my age. Had they not replaced the drink and removed the bread from the bill this would’ve been a 1-star review.

There are a lot of better places to go, just a couple hundred meters away, trust me, you’ll actually save time by...

RESEÑA LARGA:

Fuimos cinco personas sin reserva a cenar en sábado de semana santa, pero no había mucho jaleo y nos tomaron nota y trajeron las bebidas muy rápido. Hasta ahí, genial, el comedero amplio y agradable.

Pedimos varias cosas para compartir: tomate picado (con un ajo picado fuertísimo), calamares fritos (chiclosos), 6 espetos (mal espetados y llenos de tripa que manchaba la carne y dejaba mal sabor), 2 peregrinas a la plancha (una en salsa verde, que estaba rica y la otra al "pilpil" y que era un mejunje de Ketchup con aceite picante, no he visto algo así en mi vida), gambas al pilpil (que eran langostinos pero el pilpil estaba rico) y rosada plancha (fantástica, en su punto y genial de aliño).

Además de esos platos quedamos esperando la jibia frita y el cazón en adobo que no llegaron aunque ordenamos todo a la vez, porque dieron paso a otra mesa con tres arroces caldosos que tardan lo suyo y paralizaron nuestra comanda.

Después de más de media hora esperando, preguntamos, "sisi, están en camino" vale pues ponte media de pulpo frito también por favor. Otra media hora esperando y ya se nos había cerrado el estómago asique cancelamos la orden y preguntamos por postres: 3 helados de los de kiosko que solo hay que sacarlos de la nevera, un coulant y un tiramisú, más de 20 minutos esperando (insisto en que el restaurante no estaba lleno, eran bastantes camareros e iban con la calma).

Cuando llega el momento de pagar, la cuenta con errores: platos que no han llegado a servirse pero apuntados para cobrarlos, aunque no fue un gran problema porque lo comentamos y lo arreglaron. El pan a euro por cabeza, no avisan de este coste cuando lo sirven.

En general una mala experiencia, puede que estuviesen cansados por el exceso de trabajo que supone esta semana, pero hay cosas que no pueden ser, dejando al margen si nos gustó más o menos la comida: el pasotismo y la chulería del servicio al preguntarnos si queríamos algo más de cocina cuando ya teníamos los postres en la mesa y se nos veía claramente disgustados (¿era necesario?) o la "gracia" de un camarero también vacilando con que llegaba un barco a traerle las sardinas para nosotros (nos fuimos de las acacias porque se habían quedado sin espetos, no es una pregunta para darte pie a soltar tus chistes) y por supuesto ninguna disculpa por dejarnos a medio comer cuando fue por su desorganización.

Los camareros parece que no se comunican entre ellos y esos tiempos de espera salvajes por pararnos la comanda nos dejaron con mal sabor de boca. Un chasco y una lastima porque los 15 primeros minutos pintaban muy bien y el sitio es agradable, pero tenemos claro que no volveremos, hay más restaurantes en la zona con mejor atención y calidad...