Restaurante O Santiaguiño — Restaurant in Padrón

We are walking the Camino Portuguese and arriving in Padron at 16.10 found very few restaurants open. We should have heeded the other reviews on this platform and‘walked on by’. We arrived at what appeared to be a locally favoured establishment. We found a table outside on ‘the Terrace’ and waited for someone to serve us. We waited about 10 minutes before I got up and went in to the restaurant bar area to let the two staff (a lady who was behind the bar and a young man who was serving) that we were seated outside and wished to order food and drinks, requesting a couple of menus. I was acknowledged and handed the menus. I went outside to my table and the three of us decided what we were eating and waited to be served. We waited and waited and waited, at least 10 minutes! Finally I called over to the young man who was chatting with some females at another table (teaching them how to count in Spanish) asked him to please take our order. He eventually dragged himself away from the female attraction and we ordered two Chorizos Vino Blanc, Paella (which was a sharing dish) 2 Cocacola and a tonic water. Then we sat back and waited and waited and waited until finally one of the Chorizo Vino Blanc arrived (no bread basket) and we waited for the second one to arrive but it didn’t so we decided to get on and started eating. After 10 minutes of waiting the second Chorizo starter arrived (we had finished eating the first one.) The Paella arrived and we waited for the Churrasco Ternera to arrive before starting to eat our Paella but after 10 minutes of waiting we decided to eat before it got too cold. We had finished eating our paella and the Currasco Ternera still had not arrived so we called the young man over and asked him what had happened to it? He replied that he didn’t realise that we ordered it (he wrote out our order in the first instance) so we told him again what we had ordered and he disappeared into the restaurant. After 15 minutes of waiting it finally arrived. A lovely lady came to clear our table (which had not been cleared between courses) and asked us if we wanted to order deserts. We decided that we would have coffee, pay and leave. She was very efficient and friendly, helping us with our very poor Spanish translation. We paid an awful lot for very poor service, standard of food and very little atmosphere. The fact that we had to pay more to sit outside in a public square is disappointing. I strongly recommend that you’walk on by’ as there is a much better option just around the corner opposite...

I would not recommend this place at all. Firstly, the food just wasn't good. I ordered the barbecue pork and it was pretty charred which is fine, but there was also little to no meat on the bone. Very few fries were given with the meat too, so I left still hungry and went to the grocery store after. Another member of our group got grilled chicken, and also said the same, that his chicken was mostly bone and inedible. Two members of our party got the paella and they said it was good, but they were the only ones satisfied with the taste of their meal.

Second, it took about an hour to be served. The menu states that paella takes at least 30 minutes to prepare and the members of our party that got it were okay with waiting, but we also ordered 3 other meals and Padron peppers. The first thing to arrive was my meal after an hour of waiting. I think it was a poor decision on the restaurant's part to not bring our starter (the peppers) and the bread basket out while some were waiting on the paella.

Our waitress was personally very nice, but the long wait for EVERY item, not just the paella, makes a service review of higher than two stars too generous. Really not good and it was kind of pricey for walking...

So we recently came off our pilgrimage and I have to say this was bar none our worst experience. We were staying close so tried it out. we got there about 8 and you could tell the waitress was overworked and had too many tables and things to do. We waited quite a bit to order, then when we ordered it took 45 minutes for our food to arrive, one of our party ordered the pasta and mussels which was 3 mussels in very little macaroni, my wife and I ordered the mixed fish grill and I think we got served actual garbage, bones and burnt shimp, worst thing I ever saw. MAybe it was a bad night or too late but it was really shamefull. I dont like giving bad reviews unless things are really bad (canadian) but this was...