El Bule — Restaurant in O Pino

In short: food nice (not great, just nice); service - disaster.

Read all if you have time: Food: was nice, tomatoes are really to die for. Also had Beef carpacio - was ok. My wife had hake - never seen fish served this way, sliced like bread, rather then fillet (long cut along the bone) - this causes you to feel every possible bone in your mouth. That's not what you want in restaurant. So food just OK. Now service: disaster - felt like being served by machine/robot. No human interaction, no eye contact, no thank you, lady needs to learn propper way of communicating with people. I would not consider myself very demanding person. But if you watch from side how she deals with everyone, sorry that's just degrading overall restaurant experience. Ok, she has to deal with all serving herself, but restaurant is not that busy to behave like this. It feels she creates more stress to herself than there actually is. Would not come back again, just because of akward...

Found myself in this place because everything else in the town was closed on a Monday night. They serve the menu del dia in the evenings, 15 euros. Had the Caldo soup to start. Not great...very watery. Had a steak for my main which was fine and an ok dessert. Had a surprise with the bill...they gave us a bottle of wine (menu said wine was included) but charged us extra. When I questioned it the very grumpy waitress told me the set menu only included one glass each. We had a bottle between four people so it was more. Just a way to screw an extra six euros out of us. I certainly...

Food was okay.

Other than that... The restaurant wasn’t busy, yet the server created an atmosphere of stress and tension that felt completely unnecessary. She seemed overwhelmed without reason, which made the whole experience uncomfortable. It felt like the drama was self-inflicted — not something you'd expect in such a relaxed setting. Extremely impatient. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t return because of it. She did fetch me my sunglasses from outside when I went to pay inside. So there's...