Restaurante El Torero — Restaurant in San Javier

We noticed it was very quiet compared to others places nearby there was only one other table probably the prices put people off. The traditional ham starter was good but the paella was less than good, having eaten many paella’s this one ranked the lowest why ? Well the sea food didn’t seem fresh, I saw this in another comment, we had a mixed Paella and in mine I had two knuckle sized things which had no meat on them not sure if it was fish or chicken no matter it was waste, also here the only waitress dishes out the paella onto two plates outside your reach, I prefer to be given the dish and we help ourselves so eat the amount we each want, also the waitress takes a phone call while dishing out the paella and we are left waiting and salivating as she noticeably slowed down the dishing out while talking, won’t be back they are lucky to get 2 stars . Also interesting was that the name of the restaurant was not on...

We ordered 5 tapas - 4 were terrible. 1 was wonderful

Chicken croquetas - they were soggy & tasted sour.

Prawns in garlic - hadn’t had the poo removed & had a dark thick line through each prawn.

Calamari - the crumbed batter was under-cooked, greasy & claggy. They hadn’t bothered to remove the stringy rubbery covering from the squid.

We sent the calamari & prawns back. But they still charged us €40. €10 each for prawns & calamari despite not eating them & sending them back.

So many better places for tapas &...

The a la carte menu is interesting and heavily seafood oriented. Definitely worth giving that a try. The menu of the day however is less than brilliant as well as overpriced. Two of our party had a chicken paella to share. There was very little chicken and even that was extremely poor quality. When we complained, we were told that was what to expect from the menu of the day. That is certainly unsatisfactory. I must stress again that the main menu offers good food nicely presented but the menu of the day is...