Beer Station — Restaurant in Madrid

For people that book language exchange through Eventbrite, be careful.

I went for one last Friday (28/03) at 5:30, saw no one and asked one of the waiter if there’s an activity going on. While I was trying to explain and show him the App where it says Beer Station with address. He used Google translate and said: We do not have any language exchange activity here, if you book with someone, go find that person. While I was reading all this he suddenly pulled away his phone and walk back to the bar without saying anything.

I completely understand that is my own issue with the event organizar. What I felt weird about was he wasn’t feeling weird at all about someone came in and ask for an activity where their bar was used as the gathering point.

I have never been to this bar before so I actually checked Google comments before going. There are some comments mentioned about language exchange, some from years ago, some says it’s only Thursday & Saturday.

Overall I had a rude guy handled this impatiently and a bit suspiciously.

Update to the owner or whoever responded to my comment: I believe I have the date very clearly stated in my previous notes. As you can see it was 28th of Match, 5:30 PM. The waiter who spoke rudely with me was a man with dark, curly hair, glasses with black frame and was wearing a simple black T- shirt. If you guys do host language gathering, I had no idea why your staff would deliver...

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