Restaurante Canuto — Restaurant in Marbella

We made a day trip to Marbella for lunch and seeing the sights. Fish and seafood sounded good and this place is close to the beach.

We were seated quickly and drink orders taken.

Our food order was taken abruptly and the server was very rushed. No niceties or even a thank you. All of the servers seemed to be rushing around even though it wasn’t over crowded. We even had to chase someone down to pay our bill.

The tomatoes were very good but seemed overpriced for nearly 9€. The tuna portion was relatively small and while it was cooked rare as it should have been, it was just so-so. Too much fishy taste. The fries were good and a generous portion.

We had the flan for dessert and it was very good.

I know it’s a touristy place, but 45€ for a fairly small lunch seems like a...

We were looking forward to returning after 2 years since we were last here, but we were ultimately disappointed. Pre-cut sliced bread was put on the table without us aksing, it looked unappetising and none was eatern - but we were charged 9 euros for it (a group of 5). Most dishes seemed to be deep-fried, and quite a lot of food was left at tghe end. What was meant to be a quick, light lunch in what we preceived as a "local" restaurant, cost over 100 euros for 5 of us, and the only alcohol was 5 small beers. It was not as we...

Seemed like a nice place with a lot of locals eating Sunday lunch (February) but food took forever to arrive - after having had waited for 55 minutes we were presented by an actually excellent Dorada but served with abysmal soggy fries and a fried octopus dish which was simply uneatable (more breading than octopus, super greasy, impossible to chew) it didn’t come with any sides not even a slice of lemon. When it came to paying the bill had to be revised twice as it had items on it that we didn’t order. What an utter...