Chiringuito Los Compadres — Restaurant in Málaga

We stayed in Malaga for 11 nights in September and this beach restaurant became our go-to place for lunch. Staff work their butts off and while not proficient in English they are still very helpful and responsive. The food was uniformly good although certainly not fine dining. Be forewarned however that when you order some of the fish they are priced by weight (e.g. E38 for one sea bass). So, what you receive is a whole fresh fish that has come straight off the coals from a grill just beside the restaurant. [I noted some review saying they may be cheating on weights to overcharge and that may be true, but we never checked. Would then advise to order one of these fish for 2 people as the sizes are large.] Quite a few of our 12 person party made these orders during our stay and all of them described the different fish they received as amazing. There are a small number of meat dishes available as well e.g. pork brochettes and these were yummy as well. Service speeds very according to how busy they are, but with that in mind we always found them to...

We stopped off for a drink around 1200-1300 (8 of us). The service was absolutely terrible, waited absolutely ages for a drink each time we were finished. The place was absolutely empty apart from our party so I can’t understand why this was the case.

Had to chase after the waiter to ask could we order as each time we sat for a long time and then told conflicting things - one waiter said just go in and order at the bar. When we got to the bar we were told by the barman to go back to our seats as it was a waiter service, again waiting even longer. Really couldn’t make it up.

Orders were wrong and some drinks often missing, again waited ages between each round. Eventually asked for the bill and it took 45 mins to arrive despite repeatedly asking for it.

Service certainly isn’t friendly and definitely not worth your money. Didn’t have any food so can’t comment on that.

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Two stars only because the location is good but the worst thing for us were rude staff. As the end of tourist season approached their level of service started dropping rapidly. Today the restaurant was closed but they still hired sun beds...the man who worked there was in such a bad mood and did all he could to deter people from hiring sun beds. Once he got rid of all the customers he went to sleep. Obviously we got in the way of his sleep patterns. The food we had previous days was sometimes ok but sometimes they served fish half done because there were lots of orders and they had no time to grill it all the way. Most of the staff don't understand a word of English and occasionally we would be served food/drinks that we didn't order. All of that won't be a problem if they could be bothered to be polite ... but as the september got closer they cared...